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11 October 2012

Cheltenham Badlands.


Some geologists and ecologists now believe that we have entered the new geological era called 'Anthroposcene'- due to the human activities causing significant impact on the Earth's ecosystem. It is no doubt that human are the major cause to alter the environment; Canals can be built in few years where as rivers takes hundreds to be formed and the new land can be easily created by relocating debris into an ocean.

This location is not really an exotic scenery of nature, but rather the evidence of detrimental anthropogenic influence on nature. In the pre-1930s era, this land used to be part of a farm that grows crops. However, too much usage of synthetic fertilizer has caused the positive feedback of soil erosion and underlying Queenston shale has been exposed. The formation is red in colour due to exessive iron oxide deposits.

일부 지질학자들과 생태학자들은 인간이 지구 생태계에 미치는 영향이 증가함에 따라 새로운 지질연대기에 들어섰다고 생각한다. 몇백년이 걸리던 강의 생성과정은 인간의 힘으로 의해 몇달안으로 사라질 수 있고, 기계의 힘을 빌려 물이없는 육지에 수로를 낼 수 도 있다. 인간은, 경제적 필요성이 존재하면 바다를 간척해서 새로운 땅도 만들어낼 수 있는, 신적인 능력을 가졌다.

사진에 보이는 모습은 자연의 이국적이고 경의로운 모습과는 다소 거리가 먼, 인간의 무분별한 생태계 개발의 결과물이다. 이 곳은 원래 농작물을 기르던 농장이였으나 지나친 화학농약의 사용으로 인해 토양침식을 가속하였고 퀸스턴 셰일층이 노출되었다. 이 지층이 유난히 빨간색인 이유는 산화철(iron oxide)이 공기와 닿아 화학반응을 이르키기 때문이다. 


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