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The Badlands Guardian (also known as "Indian Head") is a geomorphological feature located near Medicine Hat in the south east corner of Alberta, Canada. Viewed from the air, the feature bears a strong resemblance to a human head wearing a full Aboriginal Canadian headdress, facing directly westward. Because of additional man-made structures, it also appears to be wearing earphones.〔(Sydney Morning Herald ) Article by Stephen Hutcheon: "Gran's canyon is a net sensation" November 13, 2006〕 The apparent earphones are a road and an oil well, which were installed recently and are expected to disappear once the project is abandoned.〔 Its scale is much larger than the figures of Mount Rushmore.〔 The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water.〔〔(CBC Radio ): As It Happens "Alberta's Aztec Rocker?" (Includes taped interview with geology professor Dr. Froese)〕 The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave — that is, a valley,〔(As It Happens ) 3D rendering by CBC Radio〕〔 which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay,〔 and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. Its age is estimated to be the in hundreds of years at a minimum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.canada.com/globaltv/edmonton/story.html?id=977b4fcb-81ad-4c44-bbfa-baaa800c6dc5 )〕 In 2006 Medicine Hat's CHAT-TV Reporter Dale Hunter did a short feature on the Badlands Guardian.〔(Badlands Guardian: ) Satellite Imagery from Google Earth Written by Rosemarie McKeon Friday, 08 August 2008 15:38 through Web Archive〕 It was the winner of the RTNDA National TV short feature award for that year.〔 The feature was originally discovered by Lynn Hickox while examining images on the ''Google Earth'' application in November 2006.〔 Suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program ''As It Happens''. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become ''Badlands Guardian''.〔 The Badlands Guardian was also described by the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' as a "net sensation".〔 ''PCWorld'' magazine has referred to the formation as a "geological marvel".〔(PCWorld ) In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth PC World Staff July 9, 2007 1:00 am〕 The Guardian was also covered by Canada's Global Television.〔 It is listed as the seventh of the top ten Google Earth finds by Time Magazine. ==See also== *'Face on Mars', photographed by Viking 1 in 1976 *Inuksuk, traditional Native Arctic peoples' stone "marker statuaries" in Alaska and Arctic Canada *Marcahuasi, a plateau in the Andes, near Lima, Peru with numerous rock formations with surprising likenesses to specific animals, people, and religious symbols. *Old Man of the Mountain, (former) rock profile in New Hampshire (collapsed on May 3, 2003) *Old Man of Hoy, a rock pillar off Scotland that resembles a standing man *Pareidolia, the phenomena of perceiving faces in random patterns 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Badlands Guardian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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