WOGE 498

Hello everyone.

For those of you in the northern hemisphere, I hope you are enjoying summer.

Felix's WOGE 497 took us to "The Big Rock" in Southern Alberta, Canada where a gigantic and seemingly misplaced quartzite mega-boulder (moved by glaciers during the last ice age) juts out of the prairie landscape.

Below is WOGE 498. As always, please post the latitude, longitude and some commentary on the geology/geomorphology/geography of the feature in the satellite photo. The winner has the privilege of hosting the next WOGE. A list of previous WOGE locations can be found here:

Good luck!

WOGE 494

Hi everyone,

Ole's WOGE 493 took us to the Outer Hebrides in Scotland for a view of a proterozoic anorthocite mountain on the Isle of Harris. Formerly, these islands were a possession of Norway (hard to think of Scotland as a Norweigan Hawaii!)

Here is WOGE 494. Please post a comment with the latitude, longitude and a description of the geological feature pictured. Happy hunting!

.Gord

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