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1. This flooded fumarole sits
in a 17,000-acre park named for a subset of the five volcanic peaks found
within its boundaries.
2. The local inhabitants share
their name with a religious order and a republic.
3. An adjacent
island experienced the largest number of casualties from a voalcanis eruption
in the 20th century.
Name the feature and its location.
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Answer: Boiling
Lake in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park in the Commonwealth of Dominica.
Photo taken by Christina Reed.
December 2001 winners:
1. Robin Bartel (Midland, TX)
2. Alejandro J. Benavides (Elko, NV)
3. Morgan Button (Cincinnati, OH)
4. Jerry D. Dolence (Reno, NV)
5. Fred A. Guthrie (Crossville, TN)
6. Lura Joseph (Mahomet, IL)
7. Dorothy Lewis (Milton, FL)
8. Janice Sellers (El Cerrito, CA)
9. Jim Shelden
10. Peter Stauffer (Menlo Park, CA)
November
2001
Clues:
1. These awesome peaks, which
top off at just under 3,400 meters, are the eroded remains of an Early
Cretaceous granite (quartz monzonite) batholith that intruded Middle Proterozoic
slate, phyllit and schist.
2. Despite the name of the
park where these peaks are located, there is nothing imaginary about the
fear even world-class climbers have felt in their ascents here.
3. The gateway city to this
locality hosted the Winter Olympics a few years ago.
Name the formation and its location.
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Answer:
Howser Spires, Bugaboo Provincial Park, Purcell Mountains,
British Columbia, Canada. Photo courtesy of Wallace R. Hansen.
November 2001 winners:
1. Bill Albright (Reno, NV)
2. Paul Friberg (New Paltz, NY)
3. Dean Hancock (Denver, CO)
4. Rick Moscati
5. Sandra Stapp (Oceanside, CA)
6. Chris Breemer (Portland, OR)
7. Tom Hilbert (Rockford, IL)
8. Darla Heil (Bishop, CA)
9. Anthony Qamar (Seattle, WA)
10. Robert McBride (Lititz, PA)
Runners Up
Chuck Cofer (Houston, TX)
Ronald Crawford (Port Angeles, WA)
John I. Garver (Schenectady, NY)
Doug Geller (Portland, OR)
David Rees Gillette (Golden, CO)
Tom Kalakay (Bozeman, MT)
Mauri S. Pelto (Dudley, MA)
Robert Stolzenbach (Lakeside, MT)
David E. Thompson (Clinton, MS)
Dave Van Dillen
October
2001
Clues:
1. The local Spanish name given
to this vertical tuff cone, which abruptly rises almost 500 feet from
the ocean, means "lion at rest." Explorer james Colnett gave the spot
its more widely used English name.
2. The rock is located on an
island that is composed of two coalesced volcanoes. On the southwestern
side lies a symmetrical shield volcano buried by a weather-beaten pyroclastic
cover. The second volcano sits on the northeastern side, and its lava
flows are only a few centuries old.
3. The island
chain in which this structure is found is best known for its biological
significance. TheUnited Nations declared the chain a Natural Patrimony
of Humanity in 1979 and a Reserve of the Biosphere in 1985.
Name the island.
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Answer:
Kicker Rock or Leon Dormido is the tuff cone. The
island is San Cristobal in the Galapagos. Photo by Suzette Connely and supplied
by Emilie Lorditch of Inside Science.
October 2001 winners:
1. Theresa Schlosser (East Meadow, NY)
2. Dennis Geist (Moscow, ID)
3. Fred A. Guthrie (Crossville, TN)
4. Jack Berkley (Fredonia, NY)
5. Rene De Hon (Monroe, LA)
6. Daniel Laó Dávila (Miami, FL)
7. George Daily (Dallas, TX)
8. Eagle C. Tovar, Jr. (Enumclaw, WA)
9. J. Brad Stephenson (Oak Ridge, TN)
10. Vicen Carrió (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Runners Up
Anne Argast (Fort Wayne, IN)
Wally R. Hansen (Lakewood, CO)
Ken Long (New Wilmington, PA)
Jamie Martin-McNaughton (Providence, RI)
Alexander McBirney (Eugene, OR)
Rob McDowell (Atlanta, GA)
Brian Moniz (N. Hollywood, CA)
Bill Romey (East Orleans, MA)
Bart A. Weis (Denver, CO)
September
2001
Clues:
1. Ski slopes sweep down on
either side of this spot, but bring your passport. A national border runs
across the top of this ridge.
2. Behind the photographer
towers a famous peak whose top is an example of an isolated rock unit
that is an erosional remnant of a nappe.
3. One of this mountain's glaciers
feeds the headwaters of a river that flows through the region made popular
by author Peter Mayle.
Name the peak referred to in clue #2, or one of the two towns that sit
on either side of this vantage point.
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Answer:
The Matterhorn is the peak. The two towns are Zermatt,
Switzerland, and Il Cervino, Italy.
Photo by Shane Naughton.
September 2001 winners:
1. George Pafumi (Schenectady, NY)
2. Leslie Anne Morgan (Fairfield, CA)
3. Joe Donoghue (Tallahassee, FL)
4. Francis Hansen (Satellite Beach, FL)
5. Elizabeth Owosina (Myers, FL)
6. Stan Frazier (Murfreesboro, TN)
7. Alan R. Haight (Sunriver, OR)
8. J.T. (Han) van Gorsel (Houston, TX)
9. Charles Burnham (Durango, CO)
10. J. Marc Coolen (Hager Hill, KY)
September 2001 runners-up
William L. Smith (McLean, VA)
Paul A. Tanner (Manchester, CT)
Celia M. Adams (Pasadena, MD)
G. Steven Ferris (Lincoln, NE)
Jane Selverstone (Albuquerque, NM)
Mauri Pelto (Dudley, MA)
Fred A. Guthrie (Crossville, TN)
Bruce R. Johnson (Reston, VA)
Jesse G. White (Moscow, ID)
John Friess (Lubbock, TX)
Kyle Gay (Apple Valley, CA)
David Schmidt (Dayton, OH)
Mike Knoepfle (Schaumburg, IL)
Mack Duncan (Thomson, GA)
Sandra Stapp (Oceanside, CA)
August
2001
Clues:
1. This spectacular fault scarp
is partially covered by a tufa layer deposited when the site was covered
by a glacial lake.
2. The legendary geologist
who first described this fault concluded that its geometry was representative
of an entire class of structures.
3. The city in the distance
is an important religious center.
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Answer:
Warm Springs fault scarp north
of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Photo by David Applegate with
thanks to Miles Unlimited and David Dinter.
August 2001 winners:
Ryan D. Christensen (DeKalb, IL)
Bill Dixon (Naperville, IL)
Rob McDowell (Atlanta, GA)
Geoff Rawling (Socorro, NM)
Morgan Button (Cincinnati, OH)
Mack Duncan (Wrens, GA)
Jim Humphrey (Midland, TX)
Bill Thomas (Plano, TX)
Charles W. Sprague (Dallas, TX)
Anson Mark (Lakewood, CO)
Runners up:
Keith T. Anderson (Converse, TX)
James Baer (Provo, UT)
Doug Bedingfield
Roger L. Burtner (Fullerton, CA)
Doug Curl (Lexington, KY)
Kelly Dilliard (Evansville, IN)
Steven I. Dutch (Green Bay, WI)
Michelle Fleck (Price, UT)
Richard B. Furner (Dallas, TX)
Julia Grim (California)
Larry Guth (Fitchburg, MA)
Fred Guthrie (Crossville, TN)
Craig Hall (Katy, TX)
Tom Hawisher (Savoy, IL)
Brad Hill (Centerville, UT)
James Hinthorne (Ellensburg, WA)
Lillian Kearney (Houston, TX)
Ralph Langenheim, Jr. (Urbana, IL)
Jack Long (Fort Collins, CO)
Bill Lund (Cedar City, UT)
Terry Naumann (Anchorage, AK)
Dru R. Nielson (Walnut Creek, CA)
Ertan Peksen (Salt Lake City, UT)
Sid Perkins (on behalf of the 2nd flr. Science
writers at Science News, Alexandria, VA)
Brian Peterson (Petoskey, MI)
M. Dane Picard (Salt Lake City, UT)
Anna Robbins
David Schmidt (Oakwood, OH)
Richard P. Smith (Idaho Falls, ID)
Derek Steadman (Thatcher, ID)
J. Brad Stephenson (Oak Ridge, TN)
Mike Stevenson (Price, UT)
John P. Stimac (Charleston, IL)
Rich Ugland
David E. Wilkins (Boise, ID)
Michael Winter (Woodland Hills, CA)
Cecile Zachary (Manhattan, KS)
Pamela B. Zohar (Elko, NV)
July
2001
Clues:
1. This island was originally
called Geanahani by the native Lucayan people. At one time the island
was named after buccaneer George Watling but today is known by the name
its first Italian visitor gave it.
2. The subaerial carbonates
pictured here were probably deposited by shoaling during stormy periods
when sediments blanketed a carbonate platform and progressively emerged
into beach ridges and dunes.
3. During the lowstands of
the Quaternary, differential weathering formed this structure. At the
same time, rainwater dissolved blue holes and caves throughout the island,
which is locally called a cay.
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Answer:
San Salvador island in the Bahamas.
Photo and clues provided by Mary
Jo Alfano.
July 2001 winners:
Roy C. Kepferle (Cincinnati, OH)
James Conder (St. Louis, MO)
Andy Armstrong (Kalamazoo, MI)
William Lee Smith (McLean, VA)
Celia M. Adams (Pasadena, MD)
Ralph Langenheim, Jr. (Urbana, IL)
Holly Kelly (Centerville, OH)
Ron Kaufmann (Miami, FL)
Elizabeth Owosina (Fort Myers, FL)
Jim Humphrey (Midland, TX)
Runners up:
Sandra Stapp (Oceanside, CA)
Jim Sukup (Carmel, IN)
Peter Heitzmann (Dale City, VA)
R. Coveney (Kansas City, MO)
Timothy Flanagan
Carl Froede, Jr.
Sid Perkins (Alexandria, VA)
David R. Wunsch (Concord, NH)
Aaron Phillips
Kerry Szemple (Bayonne, NJ)
Rob McDowell
Brian Milliman (Averill Park, NY)
Russell Kennedy (Gaithersburg, MD)
Jerry Dolence (Reno, NV)
Charles W. Sprague (Dallas, TX)
Bill Thomas (Plano, TX)
R. D. (Bob) Benson (Golden, CO)
Chris Scott (Brentwood, TN)
J. Brad Stephenson (Oak Ridge, TN)
Bart Weis (Aurora, CO)
Jennie Coe (Stamford, CT)
Allen V. Shaw (Bethesda, MD)
J. Thomas Parr
Andrew Alden
Frank Swit
Matt Crawford
Edith Chasen
Jennifer S. Prouty (Corpus Christi, TX)
David W. Steadman (Gainesville, FL)
Joe Donoghue (Tallahassee, FL)
Jesse MIller (Syracuse, NY)
Barb McGavern-Atkinson
Jacq Marie Jack
June 2001
clues & answer:
Clues:
1. The fold and formation shown
here are named after a nearby fishing and logging town.
2. Just out of the picture
to the left, a glacier hits tidewater. The glacier was named after the
first professor of geology at Princeton University -- a man who has also
had three mountains, one crater on the Moon and a hall on the Princeton
campus named in his honor.
3. While the amount of deformation
might suggest otherwise, these rocks are relatively young (Pliocene to
Pleistocene).
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Answer:
Guyot Hills, adjacent to the Guyot
Glacier in Icy Bay, Alaska.
Photo and clues provided by Scott
Broadwell.
June 2001 winners:
Ken Van Dellen (Grosse Pointe Park, MI)
Peter Heitzmann (Dale City, VA)
Ruth Jewell (Kettering, OH)
Jim Sukup (Carmel, IN)
Becky Ciske (Villa Park, IL)
Jessica Gorman (Washington, DC)
Michael A. Siemens (Rolla, MO)
Bill Frechette (Acworth, GA)
Christie M. O’Day (Tempe, AZ)
Brian W. Collins (Missoula, MT)
May 2001
clues & answer:
Clues:
1. This 3,800m-high, active
volcano was first described by a famous British explorer in 1841, but
was not climbed until 1908 (by a group led by a famous Irish explorer).
2. The volcano is situated
on an island and produces an unusual phonolitic lava containing up to
12 cm-long anorthoclase crystals.
3. The inner crater hosts a
persistent convecting lava lake that frequently showers the crater and
upper slopes with bombs.
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Answer:
Mount Erebus stands at 3,794 feet
on Ross Island in Antarctica. It was discovered by James Ross and
first climbed by Ernest Shackleton and crew.
Photo and clues from Rick Aster,
Phil Kyle, and Bill McIntosh of New Mexico Tech.
May 2001 winners:
Peter Heitzmann (Dale City, VA)
Edward Grew (Orono, ME)
Susan Milius (Washington, DC)
Rob McDowell (Atlanta, GA)
Nelson Andrekovic (Wickliffe, OH)
Sandra Stapp (Oceanside, CA)
Ruth Jewell (Kettering, OH)
Tom Parr (Reading, MA)
Matthew B. Morris (Pittsburgh, PA)
Dan Miggins (Denver, CO)
April
2001 clues & answer:
Clues:
1.
The rocks pictured are part of a four-mile thick Precambrian sedimentary
sequence. (The dam is more recent.)
2. The
strike of the adjacent mountains is orthogonal to that of surrounding ranges,
reflecting a more ancient tectonic history.
3. The
location's name comes from a vivid description by a famous one-armed explorer.
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Answer:
The Flaming Gorge Dam is located
in the northeast corner of Utah at the eastern end of the Uinta Mountains. Photo
by David Applegate.
April 2001 winners:
Mack Duncan - Wrens, Ga.
Mauri Pelto - Dudley, Mass.
Beth McMillian - Laramie, Wyo.
Sandra Stapp - Oceanside, Calif.
Gary Millhollen - Hays, Kan.
Charles Chapman - Ridgefield, Conn.
Fred Hawkins - Colo.
Rob Fillmore - Gunnison, Colo.
Garry Zabel - Glenwood Springs, Colo.
Steve Spear - San Marcos, Calif.
March
2001 clues & answer:
Clues:
1.This
pass is located in the highest part of a major intraplate mountain belt
named for a world-weighted Titan god.
2. The
city to the northwest of the pass was immortalized in a song written by
Graham Nash about a train of the same name.
3. Recent
studies suggest that these mountains, composed of Jurassic rift sediments,
accommodated a large percentage of a continent-continent plate collision
that began in the Oligocene.
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Answer:
The pass shown here is the Tizi'n
Tichka Pass in the Atlas Mountains of Morrocco. Photo by Marcus E. Milling
Jr.
March 2001 winners:
Stephen Lenhart — Radford, Va.
Sid Perkins — Alexandria, Va.
Jim Sukup — Carmel, Ind.
Sandra Stapp — Oceanside, Calif.
Frank Swit — Camp Hill, Penn.
Peter Soltys — West Chester, Ohio
Mindi Snoparsky — Philadelphia, Penn.
Jim Berg —
Dan Cole — Washington, D.C.
J. Brad Stephenson — Oak Ridge, Tenn.
February
2001 clues & answer:
Clues:
1.
This Tertiary-aged igneous intrusion is of a type first described by G.K.
Gilbert in the Henry Mountains of Utah.
2. This
lone mountain, sacred to the region's indigenous people, lies at one end
of a linear belt of volcanic centers that continues westward to the alien
landing site in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
3. In
1876 at a nearby town, "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while playing
poker. His hand - aces and eights, Jack of Diamonds high - is now known
in poker parlance as the "Dead Man's Hand."
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Answer:
Bear Butte, S.D.
February 2001 winners:
Paul A. Hale - Pittsburgh, Penn.
Anne Wilson - Burton, Mich.
Peter Heitzmann - Woodbridge, Va.
Gretchen L. Hurley - Thermopolis, Wyo.
Jim Sukup - Carmel, Ind.
James McCombs - Kent, Ohio
Harry Filkorn - Kent, Ohio
Mike Dyre - Fairfax, Va.
Dawn Sukup - Bloomington, Ind.
Cheryl Frischkorn - Santa Fe, N.M.
January
2001 clues & answer:
Laura Wright
Clues: 1.
The only nearby town of any size was named for an Englishman who explored
this still sparsley populated region in 1839 while aboard a ship named
after a breed of dog.
2.
In the bottom left corner of this photograph, taken during the region's
dry season, is the top of a waterfall that is one of the many that cascade
from this 500-kilometer-long 1.6 billion-year-old quartz sandstone cliff.
3.
The land shown here is a national park but not owned by the national government:
It is leased from the native people who have inhabited the region for more
than 40,000 years.
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NAME THE CLIFF AND THE REGION AND COUNTRY
IN WHICH IT IS LOCATED.
Answer:
The cliff pictured here is the Arnhem Land
Escarpment in the Northwest Territory of Australia.
January 2001 winners:
Donald Brobst — Virginia
Allyson Mathis — Arizona
David Adilman — Massachusetts
Cecile De Rouin — Massachusetts
Mauri Pelto — Massachusetts
John Elder — Washington
Rob Viens — Washington
Sandra Staff — California
Christie O'Day — Arizona
Jeff Ritchie — Texas
December
2000 clues & answer:
Clues:
1.
These photos were taken within minutes of each other, illustrating a geologic
oddity found in only two or three other places on Earth.
2.
The spring, issuing from nearly vertical limestone beds, supplies drinking
water for a nearby town in a valley named for an astronomical object.
3.
The mountains to the north began forming 6 to 9 million years ago when
a trap-door fault swung open. The fault's vertical displacement is estimated
at 9,000 meters, and counting.
Photos by Jim Sukup, Carmel, Ind.
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Answer:
Periodic Spring, or Intermittent
Spring, near Afton, Wyo.
December 2000 winners:
Pete Folger — Washington, D.C.
Doug Medville — Reston, Va.
Ron Hallum — Chula Vista, Calif.
Ron Pozun — Warm Springs, Va.
Melody Holm — Lakewood, Colo.
Chuck Weisenberg — Lakewood, Colo.
Susan Landon —
Stephen Lee — Newbury, Calif.
Gretchen Hurley — Thermopolis, Wyo.
Ray Petrun — Soda Springs, Idaho
November
2000 clues & answer:
Clues:
1.
Although under 2,500 meters high, this glacier-covered peak would make
a chilly home for the gods. Areas of an adjacent rain forest receive an
average of 167 inches of rain a year.
2.
Rocks in this Cenozoic subduction comples range in age from 55 million
years to 15 million years.
3.
The first systematic exploration of the interior of this range took place
in 1885.
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Answer:
Mt. Olympus, Wash. Photo by Michael Svizzero.
November 2000 winners:
Erin Sutton — Leesburg, Va.
Joe Michaletz — Helena, Mont.
Bruce Bryant —
Tom Rinehart —
Fred Hawkins — Denver, Colo.
Mauri Pelto — Dudley, Mass.
Paul Butler — Olympia, Wash.
Stephen Lee — Newbury Park, Calif.
Rob Viens — Bellevue, Wash.
Gwyneth Jones — Seattle, Wash.
October
2000 clues & answer:
Clues:
1.
An interannual climate phenomenon brought severe floods and landslides
to this valley in 1998, claiming many lives and destroying a hydroelectric
plant.
2.
Within one 100-mile section of this mountain belt, the vertical distance
between its high peaks and the bottom of the subduction trench offshore
is as much as 14,000 meters (47,000 feet).
3.
Tucked away in this mountain is an important archeaological site, one
of many that dot the entire valley, which terminates at the remains of
an ancient city forgotten until discovered by an archeologist in 1911.
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Answer:
This mountain overlooks the colonial city of Pisac
in south-central Peru's Urubamba valley, named for the river flowing through
it. Also called the Sacred Valley, it was important to the Inca and
houses many Inca ruins, including the ruins of Pisac, nestled behind this
mountain, and the well-known city of Machu Picchu, which sits at the valley's
northern end. Photo by Marcus E. Milling Sr.
October 2000 winners:
George Dasher — Elkview, WV
David King — Auburn, Ala.
David Keating —
Ryan Christiansen. — DeKalb, Ill.
Paul Butler — Olympia, Was.
Mauri Pelto — Dudley, Mass.
Jim Humphrey — Midland, Tex.
Michael Siemens — Rolla, Mo.
Jeff Amato — LasCruces, N.M.
Seigfried Hamann — Huntington Beach, Calif.
September
2000 clues & answer:
Clues:
1.
The cap rock of the hill is a dolerite sill that formed during the breakup
of Gondwanaland. The sill intruded sedimentary rocks that form the rest
of the hill and surrounding plain. They belong to a lithologic group that
contains this country's main source of coal.
2.
In 1879, an indigenous army defeated British troops here in the first
major battle of an eight-month war.
3.
On Christmas Day in 1497, Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama sighted the
coast of the province in which this hill is located. This sighting inspired
the province's name.
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Answer:
Isandhlwana Hill in the Kwazulu Natal Province of South Africa. Isandhlwana
Hill is a Karoo dolerite (Jurassic age) intrusive into Permian shales/sandstone
of the Pietermariztburg and Vryheid Formations, Ecca Group, Karoo Supergroup.
September 2000 winners:
John L. Snyder — Arlington, Va.
William Smith — McLean, Va.
George Dasher — Elkview, WV
David T. King, Jr. — Auburn, Ala.
David J. Wronkiewicz — Rolla, Mo.
William M. Jordan — Lancaster, Penn.
Bill Laughlin
Jesse Dann — Cambridge, Mass.
Skip Blanchard
Dick Swainbank — Alaska
August
2000 clues & answer:
Clues:
1.
This cave formed in Mississippian limestones that were themselves formed
in an inland sea 300 million years ago. Its pit, the site of large waterfalls
during wet weather, drops 142 feet from the surface and is a popular spot
for rappelling.
2.
Cherokee used nearby caves as a refuge from the elements. The caves show
signs of intermittent human habitation for almost 10,000 years.
3.
The cave is located in the northeast corner of a state that is home to
the nation's premier society for the study, exploration and conservation
of caves.
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Answer:
Stevens Gap Cave in the northeastern corner of Alabama, in Jackson County.
Photo provided by Gordon Brace.
August 2000 winners:
Bill Torode — Huntsville, Ala.
Jim Hall — Madison, Ala.
George Dasher — Elkview, W.V.
David Williamson — Shreveport, La.
Billy Morris — Rome, Ga.
James Currens — Lexington, Ken.
Bill Balfour — Blacksburg, Va.
Ray Yang — Temple City, Calif.
Rob McDowell — Atlanta, Ga.
Geary Schindel — San Antonio, Texas
July 2000
clues & answer:
Clues:
1.
These Pliocene-age formations were deposited along a fracture zone where
calcium-enriched groundwater springs discharges in a series of lakes.
2.
The name of this location includes an industrial mineral as does the name
of a neighboring town.
3.
Portions of Star Trek V were filmed here, and these deposits also
appeared in artwork accompanying Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
album.
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Answer:
The answer is the Trona Pinnacles of the Pinnacles National Monument
near Trona, Calif. Photo taken by John Karachewski.
July 2000 winners:
Due to the large number of responses we received this month we accepted
only the most accurate responses despite the many close answers.
William Smith -- McLean, Va.
Lawrence Guth -- Fitchburg, Mass.
Jo Schaper -- Pacific, Mo.
Barry Knapp -- Lafayette, Colo.
John Whitaker -- Mo.
Elizabeth Kasehagen -- Santa Barbara, Calif.
Gloria Koroghlanian -- Phoenix, Ariz.
Joel Pederson -- Logan, Utah
Cheryl Martinez -- Tooele, Utah
Jeffrey Wilson -- Santa Monica, Calif.
June 2000
clues & answer:
Clues:
1.
More than half a billion years ago, this cliff was a reef, and the gem-like
lake in the foreground would have been buried deep in muddy sediments.
2.
The well-preserved remains of some wonderful animals were found at the
base of the cliff in 1909.
3.
Only a few years after that discovery, the area -- now a park -- served
as a World War I internment camp for natives of the Austrio-Hungarian
Empire.
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Answer:
Emerald Lake and Mount Field, Yoho National Park, British Columbia,
Canada. The Walcott Quarry, which contains the famous Cambrian fossil beds
in the Burgess Shale, sits in the snow toward the right side of the photo.
Photo from V. Collins Chew of Kingsport, Tenn.
June 2000 winners:
Roger Borchert -- Bismarck, N.D.
Fred Hawkins -- Denver, Colo.
Toby Moore -- Irvine, Calif.
Ronnie Almero -- Irvine, Calif.
John Williams -- Sacramento, Calif.
Gisele Jakobs -- Berkeley, Calif.
Pamela Gore -- Clarkston, Ga.
Alan Fryar -- Lexington, Ky.
Curt Hudak -- Stillwater, Minn.
Leslie Gordon -- Menlo Park, Calif.
May 2000 clues
& answer:
Christina Reed
Clues:
1.
Columnar joints, pictured top left, underlie large sections of this nation's
landscape.
2.
Hikers find this waterfall -- the second-tallest in the country at 120
meters -- near where "hell freezes over".
3.
Jules Verne refers to this country's western peninsula in Journey to
the Center of the Earth.
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Answer:
Haifoss waterfall is nestled west of Mount Hekla, the volcano known
as the gate to hell in mediaeval Icelandic folklore, and south of the Langjokull
glacier in Iceland.
May 2000 winners:
Helen Delano -- York Springs, Penn.
Jesse Kasehagen -- Santa Barbara, Calif.
Honorable mention:
William Smith -- McLean, Va.
Katherine Price Blount -- Corpus Christi, Texas
Fred Hawkins -- Denver, Colo.
Nancy Williams -- Boulder, Colo.
Susan Banda -- Pamona, NJ
Mike Klein -- Boulder, Colo.
John Zeise
April 2000
clues & answer:
David Applegate
Clues:
1.The
fault scarp in the foregroung was formed in the last 20 years by a magnitude-7+
earthquake that killed two people in this sparsely populated region.
2.
This 3,900-meter peak, composed of a Silurian and Devonian limestone sequence,
is the highest in a range dominated by Mississippian carbonate banks.
3.
Root vegetables are a staple of the inhabitants of the region, which was
also a favorite haunt of the author of The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
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Answer:
Borah Peak is the highest point in Idaho, a state famous for its potatoes,
and is the highest peak in the Lost River Range. It was the site of a magnitude-7.3
earthquake on Oct. 28, 1983 — the largest ever recorded in Idaho. The quake
produced extensive surface faulting and landslides. It caused two deaths
and $12.5 million in damage in the Idaho towns of Challis and Mackay.
April 2000 winners:
David Frank -- Washington, D.C.
Kate Johnson -- Reston, Va.
Roy Kepferle -- Cincinnati, Ohio
John Callahan -- Boone, N.C.
Fred Hawkins -- Denver, Colo.
Charlie Sandberg -- Lakewood, Colo.
Bill Lund -- Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Roger Smith --
Gloria Koroghlanian --
Joe Michaletz -- Helena, Mont.