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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. Scroll down for the answer
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| Answer:
San Salvador island in the Bahamas. Photo and clues provided by Mary Jo Alfano. |
July 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
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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). Scroll down for the answer
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| Answer:
Guyot Hills, adjacent to the Guyot Glacier in Icy Bay, Alaska. Photo and clues provided by Scott Broadwell. |
June 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)
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