Thursday, May 7, 2015

WOGE 488

Hello everyone,

Finally I got one!  Ole's WOGE 487 took us pretty close to the middle of nowhere in the Karkaraly and Kent mountains in Kazakhstan. I thought about where in the world one might find an isolated mountain range in the middle of a grassland. The shape of the farms focused my attention away from North America and South America, and once I got to Kazakhstan, the feature stood out quite prominently.

This is the first WOGE puzzle that I'm posting, and I apologize for the delay as it appears that being in North America puts me out of sync with a lot of the active WOGE players in Europe!

There will be no Schott rule invoked, all are welcome to guess right away.

Please post the lat/long coordinates along with an explanation of the major geological feature in the image.

Happy hunting,

-G