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WoGE #292 Anne Jefferson's WoGE#291 highlighted a portion of Rio Xingu in Brazil threatened by the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam system to be built on this river. Being the first to provide the right answer to Anne's challenge entitles me to come up with the next puzzle, so here we go. Be the first to locate this view (give lat/long), describe it briefly in geological terms, and you instantly earn the privilege to host the next turn of the game. I suspect that fieldwork or vacation keeps some of the WoGE enthusiasts away from the internet and therefore, to prevent the game from stalling, I'll declare this run restriction free.
WoGE #287 After finding Felix's WoGE#286, the intriguing Kondyor Zoned Ultramafic Complex, I have now the privilege to post a new challenge. The usual rules apply: to win, one must locate the spot (provide lat/long) and describe it in geological terms. I have no insight how easy/hard this puzzle might be, nevertheless I declare the run restriction-free. Good luck!
WoGE #281 Jared's choice for WoGE#280 was a cloud-covered view of the Roraima and Cuquenán Tepuys of the Guyana shield in eastern Venezuela (just about where Mr. Carl Fredricksen landed with his entire house). Lucky of me, this decently scaled picture was not hampered by the Schott rule, and I managed to get it before others. Now here comes my challenge: where on (Google) Earth is this spot, and why would any geologist care about it? As is customary in this game, to win the honor of hosting the next WoGE turn, one must be the first to provide lat/long coordinates and some explanations of what is geologically noteworthy here (beyond the very obvious). This is a free run, so don't waste your time!
WoGE #255 Guided by my sixth sense, I've found Felix Bossert's WoGE#254 featuring a piece of the Altyn Tagh Fault in less than ten minutes. OK, to be clear, this only means that I've browsed along the fault looking for some good WoGE picture long ago, and must have remembered some useful general aspects of this major tectonic feature. Now here we go with the next challenge. As usually, to earn the privilege of hosting the next WoGE puzzle, one must be the first to locate (preferably lat/long) and provide a short geological description of this view. Given the frenetic pace of the game in the last couple of months, I'm curious how long this challenge will last. Minutes? Hours? Days? In any case, I declare this a restriction-free run, so you better hurry!
WoGE #222 I've found WoGE#221, the Steinheim impact crater in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, posted by Felix Bossert. I must admit, this was one of those few WoGE spots, which at a first glance looked entirely hopeless to me. Yet, odd enough, I located it in less than 5 minutes. It was somewhat obvious from its GeoContent copyright label that it must be in Germany; but then this is how 80% of the German countryside would look like at the zoom level of this snapshot. I was not prepared to browse through the entire country, and just did not find any further clue in the picture useful to narrow the search. (The quite diffuse impact-related circular geomorphology became clear(ish) to me only after I’ve found the spot and looked up the internet for what’s geologically interesting about Steinheim, the locality in the middle of the crater.) So what could I do? In such condition, defeat without fight would be a more than acceptable option to me, but there was this odd info stuck in a corner of my brain, which I had to explore before I’d give up. To my surprise, it worked. This is how: Google search for Felix + Bossert + aluminium (the only things I knew about our new WoGE-mate, based on his comments on the previous challenge). From this point on everything was piece of cake, but I won’t reveal why; those interested can easily figure out the details for themselves ;-) So it's my turn again. Trying to avoid playing too harsh, I usually come up with some decently scaled pictures. But sometimes details worth a closer look constitute the main attraction of a spot, and this is the case of this high-zoom view sitting in my WoGE collection for ages. Now I think time is ripe and I really should use it before someone else would do so. I think this quiz is difficult enough, hence I declare this run restriction-free. Let's see who'll be the first to locate (lat, long) and properly describe the main attraction of this picture.
WoGE #220 After losing track of the WoGE series for months, I managed to find the latest challenge and locate Ron's WoGE#219 in northern Peru easily, but had a hard time squeezing out relevant geological information about it, in spite of a nearly full access to the geological literature. At the end, I'm still frustrated because I have no faint idea what those nice dikes are, what's their age and source, and what major tectonic process generated the extensional faults they intruded. OK, it's my turn now to post a new quiz, and I figured that this sandy spot deserves being highlighted in WoGE. Once located, I guess it becomes pretty obvious why. So, to win this round, one must be the first to provide latitude and longitude of this place, and describe in a few words its main geological attraction. This is a fairly easy quiz, thus I'll invoke the infamous Schott Rule meant to frustrate WoGE pros by preventing them to post answers before a number of hours equal to the number of their wins expires. Posting time is 6:25 pm GMT, Monday, Nov. 8,
WoGE #197 Jerome's WoGE#196 hosted by Ron was a nice example of Rogen moraine right at its home in Sweden. Pretty tough puzzle, I'd say - without a little impetus kindly delivered by Jerome I'd be still stuck in high-latitude regions. Now here we go with the next round. As usually, to win, one must locate (lat-long) and describe the geology of the area shown in the image. This is a quite interesting place, worth a little web-research (in the case you're not sure about the context of what you see). Hint: a good answer should highlight the most important/interesting petrographic and structural/tectonic (and perhaps stratigraphic) features of the area. Please don't spoil the game by posting the location without giving a proper description, it might frustrate other players. I find healthy to invoke the Schott Rule again, just to make sure potential newbies get the chance of tasting the game. This means previous winners have to wait one hour for each of their wins before posting the answer. Posting time is Mar. 30, 6:30 p.m. GMT.
WoGE #192 The green lush of WoGE#191 posted by Ron brutally misled me and apparently tricked others, too. After browsing through tropical rain-forests over the entire globe, I realized that being a little more flexible might actually pay off. Looking into the green patches of North America quickly turned out to be a good move - I landed in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park in less than 15 minutes. So I have the privilege to post the new WoGE puzzle. Frustrated by Ron's tricky post, I've first chosen something quite tough, but then figured I better keep that spot for later because I have this fine WoGE-worthy geomorphological feature I wanted to throw into the game long time ago. For those who are new to the game or haven't played for ages: to win, you must be the first to locate (lat-long) the image and describe it in geological terms as best as you can. I consider this an easy deal, so I'll invoke the Schott Rule for this turn. That is, previous winners have to wait one hour for each of their wins before posting the answer. Posting time is Mar. 10, 4:45 a.m. GMT
WoGE #176 Ron's WoGE#175 was a piece of the Early Proterozoic New Quebec Orogen. Easy to find, but hard to document, mainly because of the conflicting old and new accounts and the convoluted nomenclature of geologic units. Now here's the next puzzle, surely worth being highlighted in the WoGE contest. It shouldn't be hard to locate and once you've nailed it down (give lat/long), the geological description should be piece of cake. Let's see who'll be quick enough to earn the honor of hosting the next challenge.
WoGE #220

After losing track of the WoGE series for months, I managed to find the latest challenge and locate Ron's WoGE#219 in northern Peru easily, but had a hard time squeezing out relevant geological information about it, in spite of a nearly full access to the geological literature. At the end, I'm still frustrated because I have no faint idea what those nice dikes are, what's their age and source, and what major tectonic process generated the extensional faults they intruded.

OK, it's my turn now to post a new quiz, and I figured that this sandy spot deserves being highlighted in WoGE. Once located, I guess it becomes pretty obvious why. So, to win this round, one must be the first to provide latitude and longitude of this place, and describe in a few words its main geological attraction.

This is a fairly easy quiz, thus I'll invoke the infamous Schott Rule meant to frustrate WoGE pros by preventing them to post answers before a number of hours equal to the number of their wins expires.

Posting time is 6:25 pm GMT, Monday, Nov. 8,
WoGE #220

After losing track of the WoGE series for months, I managed to find the latest challenge and locate Ron's WoGE#219 in northern Peru easily, but had a hard time squeezing out relevant geological information about it, in spite of a nearly full access to the geological literature. At the end, I'm still frustrated because I have no faint idea what those nice dikes are, what's their age and source, and what major tectonic process generated the extensional faults they intruded. OK, it's my turn now to post a new quiz, and I figured that this sandy spot deserves being highlighted in WoGE. Once located, I guess it becomes pretty obvious why. So, to win this round, one must be the first to provide latitude and longitude of this place, and describe in a few words its main geological attraction. This is a fairly easy quiz, thus I'll invoke the infamous Schott Rule meant to frustrate WoGE pros by preventing them to post answers before a number of hours equal to the number of their wins expires. Posting time is 6:25 pm GMT, Monday, Nov. 8," href="javascript:openLB(1082811154,'',XLarge,'',1024,628);">WoGE #220 After losing track of the WoGE series for months, I managed to find the latest challenge and locate Ron's WoGE#219 in northern Peru easily, but had a hard time squeezing out relevant geological information about it, in spite of a nearly full access to the geological literature. At the end, I'm still frustrated because I have no faint idea what those nice dikes are, what's their age and source, and what major tectonic process generated the extensional faults they intruded. OK, it's my turn now to post a new quiz, and I figured that this sandy spot deserves being highlighted in WoGE. Once located, I guess it becomes pretty obvious why. So, to win this round, one must be the first to provide latitude and longitude of this place, and describe in a few words its main geological attraction. This is a fairly easy quiz, thus I'll invoke the infamous Schott Rule meant to frustrate WoGE pros by preventing them to post answers before a number of hours equal to the number of their wins expires. Posting time is 6:25 pm GMT, Monday, Nov. 8,
WoGE #220

After losing track of the WoGE series for months, I managed to find the latest challenge and locate Ron's WoGE#219 in northern Peru easily, but had a hard time squeezing out relevant geological information about it, in spite of a nearly full access to the geological literature. At the end, I'm still frustrated because I have no faint idea what those nice dikes are, what's their age and source, and what major tectonic process generated the extensional faults they intruded.

OK, it's my turn now to post a new quiz, and I figured that this sandy spot deserves being highlighted in WoGE. Once located, I guess it becomes pretty obvious why. So, to win this round, one must be the first to provide latitude and longitude of this place, and describe in a few words its main geological attraction.

This is a fairly easy quiz, thus I'll invoke the infamous Schott Rule meant to frustrate WoGE pros by preventing them to post answers before a number of hours equal to the number of their wins expires.

Posting time is 6:25 pm GMT, Monday, Nov. 8,
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