Where on (Google) Earth #170

WoGE #170. Click to Enlarge.

Yay! I just won another Where on (Google) Earth! [Note: the WoGE link is dead, at least until Ron Schott gets back from the field, so there is no location information or winners list currently available.]

I won WoGE #169 by Peter Luffi, which was a bit of the Denali Fault near Cantwell, Alaska. Here's how I found it. First, I thought the area looked familiar, and it in fact reminded me of Tertiary volcanic rock sitting on top of Tertiary sediments. Using this false idea, I immediately started hunting in Idaho, thinking of east-west rivers and the Eocene Challis Volcanics. I soon gave up on that area and piddled around, hovering over the western U.S. in Google Earth.

The scale of the hills and rivers in the image compared to hills and rivers in Idaho and other western states, made me realize that I would need to look elsewhere. The large wash in the northwestern corner of WoGE#169 looked like glacial rivers and washes I've seen in Canada and Alaska. I thought about that and came up with the east-west valley area where the bus goes to Denali from Denali Park headquarters, some few miles north of the actual #169 area. I checked that area out thoroughly to no avail, and realized it was incorrect; nevertheless I kept looking in the region, thinking that I should find the Eocene Cantwell Formation. (Stuck in the Eocene, for some reason.) I was fortunately in the right area for the wrong reason. As soon as I thought about east-west faults, the fate of WoGE#169 was sealed. The portion of the Denali Fault shown is just west of the area of the 2002 7.9 earthquake.

To win this WoGE #170, be the first to put the correct latitude and longitude in the comments, and describe the geology of the area! No Schott Rule this time. If you win, it's up to you to choose the next WoGE!

Them thar's the rules.

WoGE Announcement!

Come one, come all! Where on (Google) Earth #164(?) was just posted at Ron Schott's Geology Home Companion Blog. He's calling it the "Davy Jones edition" and says that whereas no Schott Rule is in effect, he asks that "recent winners give the newbies maybe a day or so."

New Geobloggers and previous non-winners are invited to play - as is any blogger who loves maps and Google Earth!

Where on (Google) Earth #160

I just won another Where on (Google) Earth, this time WoGE #159 by Peter Luffi. It was an interesting structural area in northern California, showing the Franciscan Formation, the Great Valley sequence, and two major faults: the Stony Creek Fault and the Coast Range Thrust.

To win this WoGE #160, be the first to put the correct latitude and longitude in the comments, and describe the geology of the area! No Schott Rule this time, so have at it!!

If you win, it's up to you to post the next one!

Where on (Google) Earth #158

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I just won my second Where on (Google) Earth, yesterday, from Dave Schumaker at Geology News - his first time to win!! - after he posted Mt. Ruapehu, New Zealand for WoGE#157. A second win, a second volcano!!

That means I get to post the #158 edition of this fine game. I think I got lucky: 1) I was online when #157 was posted, 2) for some reason I thought the place looked familiar, although I'm really not sure why, and 3) so I was convinced I could find it! I recognized it as a volcano, and so first looked in all the usual places (the Cascades, for example), and then I wondered... Dave said it was one of his favorite areas; so I looked, and sure enough, he had posted about the volcano back in 2007: I found it first on his website! I think it looked familiar because of the beige silty ash color of the mountain, or maybe it was the crater lake...

To win this game, be the first to find and the first to post the correct latitude and longitude of the above unknown area in the comments, and also describe as much of the geology of the area as you can. I'd be greatly pleased if you could name the closest mountain, which is in the center right above the tiny Image (c) 2009 TerraMetrics lettering. If you win, you get to host the next WoGE on your blog. (Non-blog winners have a chance of hosting right here!)

I am invoking the Schott Rule this time, which means that former winners have to wait exactly one hour per win before posting their answers. Former winners and former locations can be found here. Post time will be 5:00 pm Pacific Standard Time, GMT-8.

Wo(G)E #151 Posted

Where on (Google) Earth #151 was just post here!

Phone Posting

I started a bit of road posting on my last road trip, sending posts by email with pictures taken by my 2 megapixel phone camera. I only got one sent, took several photos and was preparing to send more, when I went out of range of the internet connection provided with the phone package. I had cell service, but no internet.

I've been a bit disappointed with the quality of the pictures taken by the phone. They are fine on the phone, but look bland when posted here. It's kind of fun to do, though - entertainment while traveling through countryside I've seen many times. I continued the road posting for the last trip at another place [MojaveEx blog not currently available], but then stopped phone-picture taking when the internet uplink disappeared.

I will be on a mini - road trip for the next two days, and will have, at best, intermittent cell service. I may not be able to check for winners of WoGE #150 - I may get comments by email, but only if I have cell service. Posting times for WoGE players will, nevertheless be recorded by the blog, so not-to-worry! Also, I'll probably have internet service tonight and tomorrow morning; haven't decided on my exact destination.

So, best of luck!

Where on (Google) Earth #150

Above, the WoGE #150 image for y'all to give a shot at. I doubt it's very difficult, but don't know - they've all seemed impossible to me until the last one, and they've seemed hard to locate in cyberspace, also. I can only recommend that Peter Lufti's postings for WoGE be somehow added to the Allgeo feed so we can tell easily when and where it's been posted (since he wins so often!). But maybe we are just meant to search for it!

To play WoGE, post the location of the above place in the comments - latitude and longitude or a description. To win, post the location first! If you win, it passes to you. If you can comment about the geology, that would be great! I'm invoking the Schott Rule: wait one hour for every time you've won WoGE.

I've never won one of these things before - I used to try a lot, but finally stopped after realizing that even in an hour I usually wasn't even coming close. WoGE #149 looked very familiar to me, so I GoogleEarthed it quickly (I think that if you can Google something, then surely you can GoogleEarth a place - a new verb!), and then posted the answer as fast as possible, only stopping to look up a couple place names in my handy-dandy Oregon Atlas. And I checked out TerraServer, also [now MSR Maps].

Yes, it was the Three Sisters near Sisters, Oregon. For certain former Oregonian readers of mine, please click here to see the Three Sisters as seen from Google Earth! And please read the comments, Tuff Cookie of Magma Cum Laude gave a spectacular description of the geology of the Three Sisters, far surpassing mine!

Posted at 6:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, (GMT -7 I think because of summer time) October 24, 2008.

UPDATE 04Apr2017: These are the Whipple Mountains, with Savahia Peak nearly centered. I've added this update so the blog will find this post when using the search "whipple" and "savahia." I've gotten tired of not being able to find the post easily.