Posted on 04/30/2009 9:13:14 PM PDT by cogitator
Not the greatest image, but there aren't very many of this place. Nonetheless, it is both geologically and geographically significant. So: where is it, and why is it noteworthy? (After guesses, answer will likely be posted Friday evening 05/01 or Saturday 05/02).
I've scattered a couple of nebulous clues in this text. Super great cudos if you can name this place.
Good luck! (Click for full size, if that helps.)
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Arrigetch peaks in Alaska maybe?
Kuai, Hawaii. I can’t remember the name of the rock,,,it’s where the Menehune little people live......Obama link?
My wife says no.
It’s where Captain Kirk fought the lizard captain and defeated him by making gunpowder. Don’t remember the star coordinates.
Krakatoa?
So from skimming your profile, it seems you believe in man-caused global warming. Are you also then in favor of the many various methods intended to control it? (From little things like banning incandescent bulbs to cap & trade?)
Galapagos Islands.
Question for any geologists here:
Are there maps of area water tables? I live in Michigan, in an area where there has been a lot of flooding, for the first time ever. County officials are saying the water tables are at fault, being over saturated due to high rates of snow melt off and rain. I don’t buy it since we’ve had worse than this. The flooding also seems to be in a specific line, from north to south along the same street (probably a 12 mile line) and around a mile wide. The waters have been so high, people can use canoes and kayaks. Many homes have been flooded. Also, these homes are around a mile from Lake Michigan, yet, no homes near the Lake, nor to the east of that line had reported issues.
I totally believe this is a man made problem- that someone somewhere forgot to do proper drainage. So I’m looking for some sort of way to prove water tables are not the culprit. Until a solution is found, several homes will continually flood throughout the summer.
The only major construction has been a golf course four years ago, that is around a half mile east of the affected area. The course builders said they found a natural aqua spring underground to use for watering, yet neighbors insist since the golf course was built, their water pressure has severely decline.
I recognized it instantly. What kind of sick point are you trying to make?
NO more calls, please.
Scotty, beam me up.
That’s what gets me. If it were indeed the water table, then the flooding would be more wide spread.
The mountain doesn’t look like it, at least from the vantage point that I had, but the surrounding terrain does - Carstensweide (sp?) peak in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. I’m thinking the mountain may have another name too (more Indonesian rather than the original Dutch). The closer rocks with the anticline look like the limestone in the region.
... instantly, I say!
It’s from the Bob Hope Islands.
The natives there built this as a tribute to Bob Hope. Just look at it from left to right. You see the trademark ski slope nose and protruding jawline.
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