WoGE: Where on Google Earth #523

Andrew presented a very nice paleodelta with subsequent erosion by the smaller modern river in WoGE #522


Going from somewhere warmer than my last WoGE to somewhere even warmer, here is WoGE #523:

As always, the first person to post the position and whatever is interesting about the geology/hydrology/geowhatever in this location, wins the privilege of hosting the next WoGE.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google earth #521

Felix presented the lowest point in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere all rolled into WoGE #520. There is a lot of visible geology in Argentina!

Since I solved it quickly, I will post almost as quickly:

Besides, weekend is coming and I want to get home soon. :)

As always, the first person to post the position and whatever is interesting about the geology/hydrology/geowhatever in this location, wins the privilege of hosting the next WoGE.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #519

Felix found an opencast lignite mine near the German/Polish border for WoGE #518. It looked very European, and North-central at that, so it seems it took me only 11 minutes to find it! I was helped by the fact that it was a repeat of WoGE #207, but I only noticed that after I had found it. :)

Since I solved it quickly, I will post almost as quickly:

This one should be a little more difficult, I believe.

As always, the first person to post the position and whatever is interesting about the geology/hydrology/geowhatever in this location, wins the privilege of hosting the next WoGE.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth # 516

Felix took us to a location that could be very hard to find unless it was Lake Natron. Which, fortunately for me, it was. :)

After a few days of thinking and searching, here is WoGE #516:

As always, the first person to post the position and whatever is interesting about the geology/hydrology/geowhatever in this location, wins the privilege of hosting the next WoGE.

This one should be easy, so I invoke the "Schott rule". This means previous winners have to wait one hour for each win they previously had, before they are allowed to solve. 

Posting time is 12:10 CET, 11:10 UTM on November 26th.
Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #514

Felix had a more difficult one this time, surprisingly difficult until I focussed on the dark spot and quickly found the the World's largest asphalt lake.

I will be away this weekend, so here is WoGE #514:

As always, the first person to post the position and whatever is interesting about the geology/hydrology/geowhatever in this location, wins the privilege of hosting the next WoGE.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #510

Felix showed us a very classic location that has until now been overlooked in WoGE, the Isola Vulcano in the Liparian Islands.

Since I found it very quickly and I finally have time to find a new location, here is WoGE #510:

As always, the first person to post the position and whatever is interesting about the geology/hydrology/geowhatever in this location, wins the privilege of hosting the next WoGE.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #507

Andrew's magnificent landslide in WoGE #506 was surprisingly easy, I thought - but since it seems that nobody else found it easy, it is my turn again.

I think I can safely say that this location is not where I would have thought it should be.

As always, the first person to post the position and whatever is interesting about the geology/hydrology/geowhatever in this location, wins the privilege of hosting the next WoGE.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #503

After the intriguing #500 which took a long time to solve, we have now had two rapid ones in a row.

So this might be a little bit harder again.

 

 Some areas have more hidden geology than others.


 Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #495

I found Gord's WoGE #494 quite quickly, a very interesting location in Argentina with sufficient visible clues to make it a relatively simple search.

My summer vacation starts in 3 hours, so I don't really have the time to search for a "perfect" WoGE this time. With the new update, Google Earth itself has a lot of interesting geography highlighted, which makes it a little bit harder to find something that will take at least a few hours to find.

This one shouldn't be hard to find, I believe.

But there is a LOT of geology here - metamorphic, economical, structural, glacial, morphological, erosional...

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #493

Bill led me far astray with his WoGE #492, which turned out to be a sheltered inlet on the Andaman Islands.

Leaving the tropics from now, here is some exposed rock:

As always, post a comment with latitude and longitude and write something about the (geologic/geographic/hydrographic) feature in the picture. If you win, you get to host the next one.
Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #491

Bill's WoGE #490 took us to the Laurens Peninsula of Heard Island, a very interesting location in a very remote part of the world.

This time I give you something vaguely related.

 

 

For such an interesting little area, it is surprisingly rarely visited. Or maybe it isn't so surprising after all...

As always, post a comment with latitude and longitude and write something about the (geologic/geographic/hydrographic) feature in the picture. If you win, you get to host the next one.
Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #489

Gord's Colombian mud volcano was fairly easy to solve due to clues which had nothing whatsoever to do with the actual mud volcano! I like that kind of puzzle where a whole lot of different and seemingly unrelated clues come together and point out a very limited area to search in.

For the next one, I considered for a moment asking for the southernmost known eclogite in teh Western Greiss Region of Norway. But since that is a small lens (about 20x80cm) in a shear zone, exposed under an overhang in my own garden, I decided that it was a bit TOO impossible. :)

Instead, I give you hydrology.

This one shouldn't be too hard, I think - but I liked the pattern it makes.

As always, post a comment with latitude and longitude and write something about the (geologic/geographic/hydrographic) feature in the picture. If you win, you get to host the next one.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #487

Spotted Lake is one I have had a look at before, but I still had to find it through deduction and structural geology. :)

With that, it is time to plunge into the remote locations again:

As always, post a comment with latitude and longitude and write something about the (geologic/geographic/hydrographic) feature in the picture. If you win, you get to host the next one.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

I was fairly sure that this would be difficult, so here is a larger area (rotated a little):

WoGE #484

When I saw Bill Mitchell's WoGE #483, I thought it would be very difficult to find as it showed a rather standard suburbian area somewhere in the USA. But I was wrong, it was not too hard!

I thought my WoGE #482 should be fairly easy, but I was wrong.
I think this one will be very easy?

As always, post a comment with latitude and longitude and write something about the (geologic/geographic/hydrographic) feature in the picture. If you win, you get to host the next one.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth # 482

Felix' WoGE #481 looked impossible at first glance. It showed a karst area, most likely in China since that is where this specific type of karst surface is most common. Looking closer I saw that it was not quite as impossible as I first thought, and from then it didn't take very long to find the correct location.

This WoGE is similar: It is a dune. Yet there are enough distinguishing features to place it in a fairly limited area, and I have included one feature making the location unique.

 

As always, post a comment with latitude and longitude and write something about the (geologic/geographic/hydrographic) feature in the picture. If you win, you get to host the next one. If you do not have a blog of your own, many of the regulars are very willing to help by hosting your puzzle.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

After a week has gone, and with Easter holidays coming up, I think it is time for a hint:

I followed a stream upriver to the source, and I think I may have found the source of the black coating on the dunes. It also explains why there is a mine in such an inhospitable area, the source area is even worse!

Where on Google Earth #478

Trying to keep up the speed after finding Felix' WoGE #477, I present WoGE #478 without waiting for confirmation.

This is more a phenomenon than an occurrence - and recent work suggests that the traditional explanation is wrong.


As always, post a comment with latitude and longitude and write something about the (geologic/geographic/hydrographic) feature in the picture. If you win, you get to host the next one.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth # 476

Yet again my unusual memory helped me pinpoint a WoGE in record time, and it is my turn again. Felix gave us the famous lithographic limestone quarries near Solnhofen, famous for the very many beautifully preserved fossils - including what is perhaps the most famous fossil of all, the  Archaeopteryx lithographica.

So this time there are no dunes, nor glaciers. Maybe.

In order to win the next challenge, you will have to clearly define the location of the picture (by lat. long for example) and find some words to the geology on display.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth # 473

Oh no, it's me again...

Luis' WoGE #472 took me a while to find even if I was fairly certain of the general geographic area - it is a BIG area to search through when you have no hints to where to start.

So this time I return to the deserts where things are large and clear. :)

Next week is "Winter Vacation" in this part of Norway, so I will most likely be far away and not watching the blog. Not quite as far as this, though.

Partly for that reason, and partly because I have been too successful in finding the WoGE's lately, I will again invoke the "Quadruple Schott Rule with max 5 days".  This means every player has to wait the amount of hours, four times the amount of his/her previous wins until he or she is allowed to solve the game, but not longer than 5 days.

Posted Wednesday Feb 18th, 15:00 hrs CET (1400 UTC)

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth #471

Veidos gave us a very nice glacial deposit in WoGE #470, which while rather small had more than sufficient clues to alow me to find it in a very short time. Since I found it so quickly, I decided to wait a week before posting the answer so that others could have a go at it. But unfortunately it seems I am the only one who can recognise moraine shapes on sight?

For WoGE #471 I decided to stick with the subject.

There are glaciers here, but I think that the geology of this area is well enough documented that a correct answer should include a little bit more than just the glaciers.

No Schott rule on this one, unless you know where it is and decide to wait on your own initiative. ;)

As always, post a comment with latitude and longitude and write something about the (geologic/geographic/hydrographic) feature in the picture. If you win, you get to host the next one.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

Where on Google Earth # 469

Kubilay's WoGE # 468 took me a lot less time to solve than I think he expected, to be honest I was surprised myself when all my hunches turned out to be correct.

I didn't know about Tuz Gölü in advance, which is one of the reasons I love this game: Every new puzzle teaches me something new, whether I am the poster or the solver.

 

For my first WoGE in the new year, I present an image from an area I know very little about. There is something structural, without which it would be just about impossible to solve this. There are some secondary structural-geology-related features, which i think are rather interesting. And there is something geomorphological, which I found quite surprising - all things considered.

 

As always, post a comment with latitude and longitude and write something about the (geologic/geographic/hydrographic) feature in the picture. If you win, you get to host the next one.

Previous WoGEs are collected by Felix on his blog and a KML file.

 

 Time for a hint, perhaps?

Looking along the "big lump in the middle".