The Sunday Selection – Hipster Cats, Dinosaurs and Super Heroes

Posted: 01 May 2011 08:00 AM PDT

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Every Sunday the Sifter will highlight an article from the archives. In this installment, we point fun at hipsters through the lens of cats, dinosaurs and super heroes. An entertaining gallery of picture/captions for a lazy Sunday

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WHAT IF CATS, DINOSAURS AND SUPER HEROES WERE HIPSTERS?

Picture of the Day: Mt. Roraima 2 Billion Years in the Making

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT

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MOUNT RORAIMA: 2 BILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING

Photograph via Zadan.nl

Mount Roraima is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepui plateau in South America. First described by the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1596, its 31 km2 summit area is defended by 400-metre-tall cliffs on all sides. The mountain includes the triple border point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.

Mount Roraima lies on the Guiana Shield in the southeastern corner of Venezuela’s 30000 km2 Canaima National Park forming the highest peak of Guyana’s Highland Range. The tabletop mountains of the park are considered some of the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back to some two billion years ago in the Precambrian.

The highest point in Guyana and the highest point of the Brazilian state of Roraima lie on the plateau, but Venezuela and Brazil have higher mountains elsewhere. The triple border point is at 5°12?08?N 60°44?07?W, but the mountain’s highest point is Maverick Rock, 2810 m, at the south end of the plateau and wholly within Venezuela. [Source: Wikipedia]

via Zadan.nl