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| Send answers for the March 2002 Where on Earth?
contest, which appears the print magazine, to Geotimes by March 25 (or
postmarked by this date). From those answers, Geotimes staff will draw
the names of 10 people who will win Where on Earth? T-shirts. And from
those 10 names, we will draw the names of two people who will win a Brunton
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Clues:
1. Hermit monks built huts here around A.D. 900 and built a monastery in 1025. The town's church is home to a famous Black Madonna statue. 2. The spectacular columns and cliffs are composed of uplifted and differentially eroded Upper Eocene conglomerates that represent a stack of fluvial and deltaic deposits. 3. The town and mountains share their knife-edged
name with a famous volcano located in the West Indies.
Name the town or mountain range. Scroll down for the answer
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| Answer: Montserrat, Spain or Montserrat Mountains |
February winners:
1. Chris DeWolf (Mecosta, MI)
2. Henry L. Berryhill, Jr. (Corpus Christie, TX)
3. Neil C. Sturchio (Chicago, IL)
4. David McMullin (Wolfville, NS, Canada)
5. Barbara Faulkner (Houston, TX)
6. Ella A. Beasley (Citrus Heights, CA)
7. Sandra Stapp (Oceanside, CA)
8. Jim Shelden (Missoula, MT)
9. Bill Thomas (Plano, TX)
10. Arlo B. Weil (Bryn Mawr, PA)
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Clues:
1. The name of the nearby mountain range is shaky. 2. Designated as a national monument in 2001, this place has a (non-ornate) name that is easily confused with a spicy sausage. 3. In addition to a
world-class fault exposure, rocks in the area contain abundant Miocene
terrestrail mammal fossils as well as marine mollusks, pectens, turitellas
and oysters..
Name the place. Scroll down for the answer
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| Answer: An exposure of the San Andreas fault in the newly created Carrizo Plain National Monument in California. Photo by Marcus Milling. |
January winners:
1. Scott Creely (Santa Cruz, CA)
2. Lynne Dickman (Stevensville, MT)
3. Ken Finger (Chino Hills, CA)
4. Anke Friedrich (Pasadena, CA)
5. Bob Given (Palos Verdes, CA)
6. Paul Heidgerd (Dallas, TX)
7. Anson Mark (Denver, CO)
8. Keith Meldahl (Oceanside, CA)
9. Toby Moore (Tustin, CA)
10. Michael Wopat (Redding, CA)
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