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Re:Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabi... by vslira on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:06AM (#15527119)
Sorry to go off topic, but I've been waiting a thread about weird stuff found on gmaps for a long time.

Does anyone know what is this geological formation (26.621298, 55.490281) and why it looks like a crater? Didn't find any reference to it (there could be something in Farsi, though)

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Re:Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabi... by hbk1966 on Sunday October 22, 2017 @12:39PM (#15527604)
This is called a salt dome. It seems this one in particular is called the "Qeshm salt dome".

http://geology.com/stories/13/salt-domes/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_dome/

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Re:Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabi... by jnotarstefano on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:32AM (#15527225)
It seems to be known as the Qeshm salt dome: http://wikimapia.org/11589307/Qeshm-Salt-dome
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Re:Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabi... by AHASIC on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:15AM (#15527157)
I get a forest on google maps with these coordinates.
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Re:Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabi... by Mithaldu on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:26AM (#15527197)
He means the circular dark area you see when you zoom out.
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Re:Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabi... by DanBC on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:32AM (#15527223)
the island is Qeshm, and it's a unesco site.

Frustratingly I can't find any particular info about that bit, unless it's what's called stars valley.

http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/05/stars-valley-on-qeshm-isla...

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