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:

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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...

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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.

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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:

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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?

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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.

 

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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.


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