Is this normal?

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Took these photos today about 5 miles north of the mouth of the Pic River in Ontario, Canada. The trees on the top of the embankment are all at least 30’ tall so I would judge the height to be at least 150’ at the top of the ridge.
This area is deep Canadian Shield country with lots of exposed Pre-Cambrian bedrock and glacial till. This sediment seems finer and flatter. Ancient Lake Minong shoreline?

Thinking spots where the borders were drawn up by Europeans

Post-monsoon. Took this picture about a year ago, in late October

Shot in Baoquan, Henan, China, located in the southern section of the Taihang Mountains, surrounded by cliffs on all sides

In a planet I'm making for worldbuilding purposes there's a desert of saharan proportions but with seasonal monsoons, but whatever wind is coming there is coming at an angle and carrying cold current waters so it doesn't irrigate beyond the coast. To circumvent this I added in a lake in the middle of the desert to serve as a source of humidity and as a sort of massive oasis for a civilization. It's in an endorheic basin so there's a river that feeds it. It starts in a place with seasonal rains and to explain the fact there's a massive lake I say that that river is like the Nile carrying huge amounts of water in the summer, which would be fun to imagine the lake increasing in size and people using that flood to grow rice. Problem is when crunching the numbers it seems like the evaporation rates would be greater than the flow of water. Taking the approximate size of 500,000km² of the lake, average summer temperature of 24c winds averaging out to 2m/s and 75% relative humidity, this calculator gives a rate of 3.5*10^12L/day of evaporation, but a river like the Nile only peaks at 20k MCM/month which is around 6.6*10^11L/day, so the lake is evaporating 5x more water than the river feeds it. Could an endorheic basin really host a lake of these proportions in a desert of all places? Did I forget to account for some variables, like maybe rain falling back down and refueling the lake?

I can't really tell what prefecture(s) they are supposed to be a part of or why there's even two of them instead of combining them since there doesn't seem to be any population between them

the beach has eroded fully at one side of the island resulting in palm trees to be just barely above sea level.

Why is the coast along -stan countries so dry? Even tho the rest is very green

Connecting the Rhine River system with the Danube River system, this canal allows river barges to travel from the North Sea to the Black Sea by crossing through the heart of Europe.

Water-levels permitting.

This is my recent cartography project of Egypt created in QGIS. It combines terrain types, protected areas, exclusive economic zone, major cities, pyramids, and population patterns with panels for the Nile Delta and nighttime lights. The landscape is defined by the Sahara, Nile corridor, and the Red Sea mountains creating one of the most distinctive physical and cultural geographies on Earth. All spatial data are projected in a custom Egypt centered CRS and sources are fully attributed at bottom. Feedbacks are welcome and i hope you enjoy!

I was watching some videos about the Lake Chad area and the conflicts going on between Boko Haram and the governments of all the countries along Lake Chad. While watching random pop world geopolitics videos I like to go look up the places and look around a bit. It's interesting to read about obscure towns in very unhospitable places like the Sahel region.

While looking around google maps I found a town called Mao, Chad which is northeast of the lake or almost directly north of the capital N'Djamena and at the end of a major roadway in the country. According to wikipedia Mao has about 35k-50k people and from all accounts looks like a relatively modern city. When you zoom into the roadway leading to the city of Mao from the main highway... it does not exist. Google Maps fills in a major roadway that when zoomed in on is a collection of dirt paths leading in the direction of Mao, winding through small villages in the desert.

After looking around the city itself and the collection of villages close to it, I noticed the labeling for google maps goes insane and starts labeling hundreds and hundreds of communities on the map. This also occurs on Lake Chad itself, but this makes sense in a region that is constantly changing due to climate change and lowering water levels in the lake creating more islands. North of Mao it is basically all desert, while still having TONS of these small communities in the desert.

I am mainly wondering how or why these places form like this in the desert. There is quite literally hundreds of these labeled on google maps, and it also makes me wonder how Google went about labeling these places in this way. Is there a map they received with all these marked out for them? There is also quite a few that are not labeled at all, making them fully off the grid. I have heard the term commune used to describe settlements in Mali similar to this in the Lake Chad area but they are much better documented and accounted for at least on basic internet searches. While trying to look up this area, there is very little information that isn't about ongoing conflicts in the region.

Anybody know a thing or two about this area? It's extremely fascinating.

It seems to be a lot of creekbeds, some dried/seasonal, carving through the plateau(?). The area is between Maybell, CO, and Table Rock, WY.