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.

Treeees!

Well, actually just one tree, in a nice desert shadow, probably a piñon tree.

A mini-tree meme is going around the GeoBlogosphere - started here by Geotripper, and followed on with here at Clastic Detritus. I've had a couple posts recently showing some trees, but I don't really have a favorite tree, unless it would be one in those previous posts, a tall aspen tree in our backyard.

I picked the above tree photo, because it was the shadows in the Basin and Range of Nevada that made me realize a long time ago that I loved the place.

UPDATE: More trees are sprouting here and there. Geotripper is keeping track of them - be sure to check them all out.

UPDATE AGAIN: More sprouting going on all over the place, and here, too! Many posts mention some link between trees and geology. And another one!

Friday Fault Photos #6

Fairview Peak Revisited:
A few more photos of Fairview Peak, Nevada, site of Nevada's 1954 earthquakes.

Fairview Peak, like many places in Nevada, looks different every time I drive by, so I've taken a lot of photos of it over the years. The photo above, taken recently from a vehicle on Highway 50, looks southward toward the peak along a hill with the 1954 fault scarp near its eastern base (to the left).
Here the road drops into Stingaree Valley; it's about to cross the fault scarp, which has been modified by highway construction.
Another view of the east side of Fairview Peak after driving over the scarp, looking back a little to the southwest.
In this photo of the east side of Fairview Peak, not only is most of the eastern side in shadow, but this time it's snow-covered. The actual fault scarp from the 1954 earthquakes is hidden in the shadow in these photos, and is often difficult to see from a distance. A line seen in the sun, in snow toward the left side of the photo, is a poleline road along the base of the slope, quite a ways below the actual fault scarp. A good photo of the original scarp can be seen here; additional photos, probably taken in 2004, can be seen here.
This view of Fairview Peak was taken from a little pullout on the north side of Highway 50 near the center of Stingaree Valley, with field vehicle in the foreground.

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