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Spanning east from Drumheller to the Saskatchewan border and south to the United States, this region is known as the Canadian Badlands. La naturalesa d'aquesta curiositat és que, vista des de l'aire, aquesta formació rocosa sembla un cap humà lluint un barret a l'estil dels nadius. Badlands Guardian és una curiositat geomorfològica localitzada prop de Medicine Hat, al sud-est d'Alberta, Canadà.

3D diagram of Badlands Guardian topography, prepared by Lutz Perschon for CBC Radio.

Photo of the Badlands Guardian taken from a paraglider.

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^ PCWorld In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth PC World Staff J1:00 am.

"Top 10 Google Earth Finds: A Face in the Clay".

^ As It Happens 3D rendering by CBC Radio.

^ a b CBC Radio: As It Happens "Alberta's Aztec Rocker?" (Includes taped interview with geology professor Dr.

Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. It resembles a human head, wearing Native American headdress-and also appears to be naturally adorned with. The Badlands Guardian, for example, a natural geologic formation near Alberta, Canada, was often visited by online aviators. Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know.

^ a b c Sydney Morning Herald Article by Stephen Hutcheon: "Gran's canyon is a net sensation" November 13, 2006.

^ "Atlas Obscura names Alberta's 'Badlands Guardian' curious, hidden wonder | CBC News".

Old Man of Hoy, a rock pillar off Scotland that resembles a standing man.

Old Man of the Mountain, (former) rock profile in New Hampshire (collapsed on May 3, 2003).

Marcahuasi, a plateau in the Andes, near Lima, Peru with numerous rock formations with surprising likenesses to specific animals, people, and religious symbols.

Inuksuk, traditional Native Arctic peoples' stone "marker statuaries" in Alaska and Arctic Canada.

"Face on Mars", photographed by Viking 1 in 1976.Pareidolia, the phenomenon of perceiving faces in random patterns.Apophenia, the tendency to perceive connections between unrelated things.It is listed as the seventh of the top ten Google Earth finds by Time magazine. PCWorld magazine has referred to the formation as a "geological marvel". The Badlands Guardian was also described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a "net sensation". They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. In 2006, suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. Its age is estimated to be in the hundreds of years at a minimum. Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave – that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion.

The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. The apparent earphones are a road and an oil well, which were installed recently and are expected to disappear once the project is abandoned. Additional man-made structures have been said to resemble a pair of earphones worn by the figure.

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Viewed from the air, the feature has been said to resemble a human head wearing a full Indigenous type of headdress, facing directly westward.