Where on (Google) Earth #34?
posted in Geology, Google Earth, Photography, Where on (Google) Earth? |For the first time since it was formulated I’m invoking the Schott Rule on this Where on Google Earth challenge. I think Lab Lemming‘s got a great idea for us veterans to wait a while and give newbies a chance to get in the game on these challenges. In a nutshell, the Schott Rule says previous winners should wait at least an hour for each previous victory before posting a solution on WoGE challenges (when it’s invoked). So, for example, Thermochronic would have to wait 4 hours before submitting an answer on this challenge – your wait time is indicated by your number of wins in the official tally in the top level info box on the master compilation of winners. (I’ll do my best to keep that up to date during vacation, but there may be some delays.) Newbies, of course, can start right away!
Under the Schott Rule I’ll be waiting at least 15 hours from the posting time of the next challenge in which I participate as a competitor. It may be a moot point for me anyhow for the next couple of weeks. I’m off in a day or two for a two-week vacation followed by a four day conference, so my WoGE appearances will be few and far between for that stretch (and there was much rejoicing!) Today’s challenge is one of my intended vacation destinations:
To keep it interesting I’m zoomed in to a mere 750 meters off the deck. In part, this is intended to make a coastal location more challenging to find, but it’s also because there’s a remarkable bit of bedrock geology exposed in the challenge area when you look at the image close enough. As always, I’d like to get as detailed an explanation as possible of the geology of the area along with the location. In a month or so when I get back I’ll post photos and hopefully a few QTVR panoramas of this site, as well. As it happens, the point at the southeast corner of this view was the site of a pace and compass mapping project during my own undergrad field camp back in the summer of 1989. The photo at the right illustrates some of the other landforms in the region (but not in the specific area of this WoGE challenge).
Once you’ve figured out where I’m vacationing I’d love to hear your suggestions for spots in the area with interesting geology to photograph (possibly in panoramic QTVR). Submit them in the comments or by e-mail (with GE placemarks, if you want). Any other suggestions for photogenic geology in the general region are also welcome. I generally geotag and post my field photos to my Flickr account where most are available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
Admit it Ron. You’ve just zoomed in for a gratuitous shot of those dykes sunning themselves at the water’s edge…
p.s. Shadows say N hemisphere, angled parking tells me not UK or Japan.
Tried some of Maine/N. Scotia, no luck.
Re #1: Guilty as charged.
Re #2: I’m driving to my vacation destination. It’s definitely in North America…
Are there actually moose on Big Moose Island?
Hmm. Bizarre. I can see the file in my downloads directory, but get a 404 when I try to access it. Maybe I’m having cache issues? Anyway, 44 20 N 68 3 W.
Lemming was getting pretty warm, but Yami takes the victory on #34. Well Done, Yami! (The KMZ link works fine for me.)
Are there moose? I’ll get back to you on that.
(Another question one might ask is if it’s even an island – the evidence from Google Earth’s satellite imagery is equivocal.)
I’d really appreciate anybody’s suggestions for geologic photography spots from the Adirondacks to the Maine coast. Especially if you want to make a request for a QTVR panorama. No guarantees, but I’ll do what I can.
You’re up for WoGE #35, Yami. By the way, how did you find the spot?
I found it the same way LL did, except I was lucky.
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Somehow I get the feeling that Yami wasn’t trying to settle an overtired baby and woge at the same time. Which just goes to show that she isn’t as stupid as I am. As for geo photos, there are heaps of trilobites in the paleozoic rocks that line the shored of Lake Champlain- I think we saw them on the VT side, but it was a first year field trip, and that was so long ago.
There are also nice syenites in the southern foothills of the White mountains, in NH, and Mt. Washington has some nice staurolite schists.
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Ahh Ha! I knew being a Maine geologist would come in handy one day. The location is just south of Winter Harbor, Maine. East of Acadia National Park, possibly an annexed part of the park. The rocky coast and northeast dikes in the photo rang some bells. I believe the dikes are Mesozoic, related to rifting. The host rock is a Devonian aged granite.