Desert with Stone Balls by Heinz Sterzenbach

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Desert with Stone Balls, Acrylic Collage, Canvas, 15,7x11,8 inch, 2007. Width of parts of the today's desert were millions of years ago filled with lives . In the Sahara witness petrified ammonites, used the today's cuttle fish, from an acient times ocean, in Arizona petrified trunks of former forests. As a document of a damper climate in retrograded earth epochs in the Sahara remained also small crater petrified, which a hail impact left at that time in the soft soil. Only a few stone balls remained of a high country. The Tschigai plateau belonged in the northwest of the Tibesti mountains to the hardly investigated regions of the earth. Hundreds of square kilometers are dotted with these meter-large stone balls. They are last remnants of laminated sedimentary rocks. The wind and still unexplored micro-climatic conditions in the moving hard shadow of the sun brought it in form. Between the stones are collagierte petrified urine sparkling wines (wasp from the pit of Messel), which appear oversized in relation to the stones. Today the pit Messel belongs to the most famous places of discovery from the eozaen. There scientist found fossil remainders of insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and even mammals. To this exotic animal world belonged among other things giant ants, giant queues, even crocodiles and up to 2 meters high giant run birds. In addition scampered fox-large original horse, tapir, bear and shed animals by the tropical forest. Also prosimians, hedgehog-similar insectivores, bats and amazingly many kinds of bird. Between Frankfurt/Main and Darmstadt convenient, Messel was 50 million years ago still on the height of the today's Siziliens, thus substantially more near at the equator. There were not the continents, how we know them today, at this time yet. Perhaps you visit the world nature inheritance pit Messel once, by the way the only UNESCO nature inheritance place in Germany.