Boreal Forest Rings

[Cheryl Jones]

Boreal Forest Rings
In the boreal forests of Northern Ontario and Quebec, more than 2,000 large-scale forest ring features have been found during the course of aerial photographic surveys. ........Present research indicates that there are complex electrochemical reactions between underlying metallic ore bodies and the overlying limestone.....

Read on and see the cool photo at http://epod.usra.edu/
If you're not reading this the day I'm posting, click on archives and select April 26, 2007.

Cheryl

[graveleye]

cool!! I thought it was going to be fairy rings but this is far more impressive.

I had a fairy ring in the front yard of my last house - it came back year after year... the strangest thing to see hundreds of mushrooms all growing in a perfect circle.

[Rick Brinkman]

Possible old impact craters????



Fairy Ring is good cooked in butter.

[graveleye]

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm

threadjacking in progress... but this is pretty interesting to say the least.

[stevekny]

Check out a Google Earth view of the one featured in the EPOD, and others around it, here:
http://www.stevekluge.com/circles.zip

and Stewart Hamilton's abstract from a 2005 GSA meeting talk describing them:
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2005NC/finalp ... _86327.htm