Okay, Where on Google Earth has prompted me to start a blog. I ended up finding Ole's image because of the large natural lake in a somewhat dry, but subtropical-looking northern hemisphere area with a distinctive farmland pattern. From the finely divided fields I surmised high population density; the fields in India didn't look right so I tried China. There are only a few natural lakes in the appropriately vegetated parts of China.
At some point I intend to write some interesting geological content in this blog. But for now, let the game continue: Find the latitude and longitude of the image below and post them along with an explanation of what's geologically interesting. If you win, you get to post the next one. Posted at 16:26 GMT, March 25th, 2014.
Cheers,
Nick
At some point I intend to write some interesting geological content in this blog. But for now, let the game continue: Find the latitude and longitude of the image below and post them along with an explanation of what's geologically interesting. If you win, you get to post the next one. Posted at 16:26 GMT, March 25th, 2014.
Cheers,
Nick
24°28N 39°36E - near Medina, Saudi Arabia!
ReplyDeleteAfter (foolishly) pursuing lakes near big (and dry) cities, I looked, with a lot more attention, to the dark areas and thought "volcanic rocks"! So, starting (wrongly) in Iran, the next step proved right - Saudi Arabia!
The area is part of the Harrat Rahat and consists of quaternary basalts, as one can see in the "b5" in the page 22 map of the (Omar Allafouza Loni's paper)
Correct! In 1256 lava actually flowed within a few km of the holy city. The next Where on Google Earth is yours to post.
ReplyDeleteIn about 20-24H I'll post the next WoGE!
DeleteAnd .... here it is: http://woge-luis.blogspot.com/2014/03/438.html
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