Field guide No. 471
Shadow waterfall on dry limestone
Dry, but you can tell.
A tall pale limestone cliff has a dark, waterfall-shaped shadow running down its face and spreading at the base like spray, with no water anywhere. The waterfall left and its shadow stayed.
Field noteA shadow needs something in the light. This one falls down the cliff with nothing there to cast it.
- Specimen
- No. 471
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dry limestone escarpment.
- Nearest existing relative
- A waterfall.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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