Saturday, March 08, 2008

Where on (Google) Earth? #117

This time, I've pulled a new trick out of my hat. I have altered the color balance of the image, so that you can't just scan the continents at a wide zoom looking for something that has the right average tone.

Y'all will have to do some geologizing instead. And if any of the sedimentologists can explain how this sort of drainage pattern evolves, I'd love to know.


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14 comments:

  1. ScienceWoman09 March, 2008 09:06

    That's pretty evil...but cool drainage though. Unfortunately, I've got papers to grade.

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  2. Anonymous12 March, 2008 14:23

    I don't have google earth but will just guess: somewhere in a glacial outwash zone. Far north latitudes. Permafrost. Canada? Siberia?

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  3. Dr. Lemming18 March, 2008 18:56

    Gosh, a little color change and you guys get all confused. What if I told you all that it was deltaic?

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  4. Silver Fox19 March, 2008 23:35

    I think we already knew deltaic!

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  5. Ron Schott20 March, 2008 13:54

    I've searched the Ganges-Brahmaputra River Delta and the Indo-Gangetic Plain so much I think I'm ready to qualify as a riverboat pilot. If it's hiding there your camouflage job has succeeded beyond your wildest hopes. I've searched other areas too, but I'd still put money on the fact its hiding in that drainage somewhere.

    Maybe you could offer a hint about why you thought altering the color scheme was necessary in this case. I really don't think it's something I'd suggest repeating - IMHO I'm not sure it's helping the game.

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  6. Mathias21 March, 2008 05:57

    Ron...we could open a joint company of river boat pilots. i am definitly running out of rivers and deltas that i can think off. :D

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  7. Silver Fox22 March, 2008 00:01

    I'm a color-oriented person, and I don't do that well on WOGE when the color hasn't been changed (so far) - so I won't even try this one!

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  8. Dr. Lemming25 March, 2008 12:54

    But Ron, those rivers have water in them! What if you traded your riverboats in for camel trains...

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  9. Ron Schott26 March, 2008 16:58

    ... well in that case I suppose you'd be in the western Chari River Delta, Northern Cameroon, south of Lake Chad.

    Well played, Dr. Lemming! I withdraw my objections to your color alterations - they were not as drastic as I had imagined - though I don't think I'll be doing that with my own challenges anytime soon.

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  10. C W Magee26 March, 2008 18:40

    Well done, Ron!
    I honestly didn't think this would be that hard. I figured that the natural color (more bluish) would automatically exclude the Australian dry rivers, making the search too easy. The hardest part, BTW, was turning the overlays back to white.

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  11. BrianR27 March, 2008 11:45

    dang, that was a long one ... a new record methinks ... I was just about to stop being so lazy and go for it.

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  12. Ron Schott31 March, 2008 15:25

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  13. Ron Schott31 March, 2008 15:27

    WoGE #118 is up.

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  14. Glasgow Dentist05 May, 2009 22:58

    Google earth is really a great help from google. But sometimes we get confusing maps and locations from it.

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