Talk:Deadvlei

Picture of the Day

Picture of the day

Dead Acacia erioloba trees in Deadvlei, a white claypan inside Namib-Naukluft Park in the Namib Desert of Namibia. Deadvlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, averaging 350 metres (1,150 ft) high. About 900 years ago, drought caused the dunes to block the Tsauchab river, which in turn killed the trees. However, because the desert is so dry, they do not decompose.Photo: Ikiwaner

۞ Tbhotch^™ & (ↄ), Problems with my English? 04:12, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Global Warming

This photography makes a mockery of the assertion that global warming started in 1950.... Captainbeefart (talk) 15:52, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

How many *bleep* years???

Check the suggested age of the dead trees. There is confusion and lack of clear sources. Some time ago I read the article for the first time and changed 9000 to 900, thinking that the sense was that the trees were aged 9000 years when they died, which is absurd on a couple of grounds.

That got changed back to 9000. I left it, reflecting that perhaps the intended sense was that the trees, whatever their age at death, died 9000 years ago, which seemed reasonably possible FAIK.

Now someone else has changed it back to 900. Does anyone have definitive info? If not, I shall delete the entry completely as being unsupported. JonRichfield (talk) 14:35, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia as a source

"However, the Wikipedia article on dunes contradicts this claim; [...] (the dune article lists one possibly higher area in Africa.)" Huh? Since when is Wikipedia a source in itself? Whoever did it should link directly to the sources of the dune article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bokskar (talk • contribs) 04:09, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Of what species are these trees?

It seems pretty central to the article but it ain't there. Of what species are the dead trees? Nicolas Perrault III (talk) 18:27, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Good question. Dunno. Never been there. My guess a species of Acacia JonRichfield (talk) 20:01, 2 April 2013 (UTC)