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It is my pleasure to post a new geo-puzzle after I won Silver Fox's WoGE#170 featuring the New Idria serpentinite diapir in California. I would guess, it was the Almaden mercury mine in The Lost Geologist's WoGE#168 that triggered Silver Fox's mind to come up with New Idria, a historic Hg mine of California. On the other hand, New Idria is a type locality for benitoite, and this is what sparked my mind to give a spin to the game with an additional element. The idea is to choose a new WoGE so that it connects to the previous one by a keyword that should be provided along with the picture (for example, Silver Fox could have picked the keyword "mercury mine"). In the case of my WoGE#171, this keyword would be "type locality". The rules remain the same [the spot should be located (lat, long) and described in geological terms], but to win, one must also explain how the chosen keyword fits into the picture. The simple-to-answer question in this case would be: for what rock is this place the type locality? Let's see if anyone likes the idea.](http://pluffi.smugmug.com/Landscapes/WoGE/WoGE171/618178825_drw2V-Ti.jpg "Péter Luffi > WoGE #171
It is my pleasure to post a new geo-puzzle after I won Silver Fox's WoGE#170 featuring the New Idria serpentinite diapir in California. I would guess, it was the Almaden mercury mine in The Lost Geologist's WoGE#168 that triggered Silver Fox's mind to come up with New Idria, a historic Hg mine of California. On the other hand, New Idria is a type locality for benitoite, and this is what sparked my mind to give a spin to the game with an additional element. The idea is to choose a new WoGE so that it connects to the previous one by a keyword that should be provided along with the picture (for example, Silver Fox could have picked the keyword \"mercury mine\"). In the case of my WoGE#171, this keyword would be \"type locality\". The rules remain the same [the spot should be located (lat, long) and described in geological terms], but to win, one must also explain how the chosen keyword fits into the picture. The simple-to-answer question in this case would be: for what rock is this place the type locality? Let's see if anyone likes the idea.")
WoGE #169
The focus of Lost Geologist's inspired WoGE#168 was the Paleozoic mercury deposit from Almaden, one of the largest (and perhaps weirdest) geochemical anomalies on Earth. My intuition to look in Spain was right (well, I admit, there was some reason involved, too), yet I needed couple of hours to find the spot. I'm not sure how many (if any) WoGE enthusiasts are navigating the web these days, so it's hard for me to tell whether I won a competition or was playing alone. In any case, I'll figure this out soon after posting this nice wide-angle view of something I believe worth to enter the WoGE hall of fame. Yeah, I just realized the beauty of GE running on twin screens, and even if it makes the challenge too easy by revealing perhaps too much, I still thing this spot is worth a double-wide view (you can choose to download various sizes of the picture, including the original, which is 3352x1007 pixels). The rules are the same, locate the view (lat, long) and describe it in geological terms. There is a major geological attraction here, to win, one must at least name it. This is a free run, good luck!
The focus of Lost Geologist's inspired WoGE#168 was the Paleozoic mercury deposit from Almaden, one of the largest (and perhaps weirdest) geochemical anomalies on Earth. My intuition to look in Spain was right (well, I admit, there was some reason involved, too), yet I needed couple of hours to find the spot. I'm not sure how many (if any) WoGE enthusiasts are navigating the web these days, so it's hard for me to tell whether I won a competition or was playing alone. In any case, I'll figure this out soon after posting this nice wide-angle view of something I believe worth to enter the WoGE hall of fame. Yeah, I just realized the beauty of GE running on twin screens, and even if it makes the challenge too easy by revealing perhaps too much, I still thing this spot is worth a double-wide view (you can choose to download various sizes of the picture, including the original, which is 3352x1007 pixels). The rules are the same, locate the view (lat, long) and describe it in geological terms. There is a major geological attraction here, to win, one must at least name it. This is a free run, good luck!
WoGE #169
The focus of Lost Geologist's inspired WoGE#168 was the Paleozoic mercury deposit from Almaden, one of the largest (and perhaps weirdest) geochemical anomalies on Earth. My intuition to look in Spain was right (well, I admit, there was some reason involved, too), yet I needed couple of hours to find the spot. I'm not sure how many (if any) WoGE enthusiasts are navigating the web these days, so it's hard for me to tell whether I won a competition or was playing alone. In any case, I'll figure this out soon after posting this nice wide-angle view of something I believe worth to enter the WoGE hall of fame. Yeah, I just realized the beauty of GE running on twin screens, and even if it makes the challenge too easy by revealing perhaps too much, I still thing this spot is worth a double-wide view (you can choose to download various sizes of the picture, including the original, which is 3352x1007 pixels). The rules are the same, locate the view (lat, long) and describe it in geological terms. There is a major geological attraction here, to win, one must at least name it. This is a free run, good luck!
The focus of Lost Geologist's inspired WoGE#168 was the Paleozoic mercury deposit from Almaden, one of the largest (and perhaps weirdest) geochemical anomalies on Earth. My intuition to look in Spain was right (well, I admit, there was some reason involved, too), yet I needed couple of hours to find the spot. I'm not sure how many (if any) WoGE enthusiasts are navigating the web these days, so it's hard for me to tell whether I won a competition or was playing alone. In any case, I'll figure this out soon after posting this nice wide-angle view of something I believe worth to enter the WoGE hall of fame. Yeah, I just realized the beauty of GE running on twin screens, and even if it makes the challenge too easy by revealing perhaps too much, I still thing this spot is worth a double-wide view (you can choose to download various sizes of the picture, including the original, which is 3352x1007 pixels). The rules are the same, locate the view (lat, long) and describe it in geological terms. There is a major geological attraction here, to win, one must at least name it. This is a free run, good luck!
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