Valley of the Moon by Claudio Spinelli

Valley of the Moon by Claudio Spinelli

The Valley of the Moon is positioned in a wide basin carved mainly on different types of clays, surrounded by a region formed by basalts, scoria and gray and black lava, with crags and cliffs of volcanic origin of heights of up to 800 meters.
Given the extreme aridity, the area has almost no vegetation, so the first layer of soil does not have the defense that could be presented by the roots of the plants, stopping erosion caused by wind and torrential rains, so over the course of millennia strange forms have been created, sculpted domes, ravines and columns, in the middle of a wild, desert landscape, where various colors dominate: green, gray, pale beige, through shades of pink, orange, dark brown, to red and crimson. 月亮谷位于一个宽阔的盆地中，主要由不同类型的粘土雕刻而成，周围环绕着由玄武岩，火山灰和灰黑色熔岩组成的区域，火山岩峭壁和悬崖高达800米。
由于极端干旱，该地区几乎没有植被，因此第一层土壤没有可以通过植物根部呈现的防御，阻止风和暴雨引起的侵蚀，因此在数千年的奇怪过程中 在野生沙漠景观的中间形成了各种形状的雕刻圆顶，沟壑和柱子，各种颜色占主导地位：绿色，灰色，浅米色，粉红色，橙色，深棕色，红色和深红色。

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