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Where on Earth?
Do you have slides and photos you've collected from field work or vacations?
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.

Our rules will change, starting with the September Where on Earth? in the print Geotimes. All answers will be accepted until the 20th of the month, or the Monday just after it  (including answers postmarked with that date). For example, answers to the September Where on Earth? will be accepted until Sept. 20. 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 compass. 

Click here to submit a guess for this month's Where on Earth? contest.
(Photo and clues for the current contest are available in the print version only)

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Answers to the July and August photo contests:
Archive of old answers

August
 
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 and clues supplied by David Applegate, Geotimes editor.

August 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
 
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 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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