Every month, we'd like to feature one of your photos from anywhere in the world and invite other readers to guess where it was taken. Look every month in the print Geotimes for a new photo. Following are clues, answers and winners from past issues.
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| Geotimes
Published by the American Geological Institute |
January
2001
Newsmagazine of the Earth Sciences |
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Every month, we'd like to feature one of your photos from anywhere in the world and invite other readers to guess where it was taken. Look every month in the print Geotimes for a new photo. Following are clues, answers and winners from past issues. |
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| The first three readers
to identify the location pictured in the current print version of Geotimes
receive a Brunton 8099 EclipseTM
compass and the first 10 will receive a Where on Earth? T-shirt.
Please note that all contestants are eligible to win one compass per year.
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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. Scroll down for the answer ... |
| Answer:
Periodic Spring, or Intermittent Spring, near Afton, Wyo. |
December winners:
Pete Folger — Washington, DC
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
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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. Scroll down for the answer ... |
| Answer:
Mt. Olympus, Wash. |
November 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.