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WOGE #353

Posted by: Chris Arnott | August 26, 2012 | 8 Comments |

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So I sneaked in to win my second WOGE, mainly I believe due to the absence of some of the competitions keener eyes perhaps due to summer commitments , but I’m pleased to be back on the scoresheet after a lengthy absence. Whilst work commitments have distracted my focus in recent months i cant use that as a total excuse given the time it took me to resolve Matthew’s WOGE#352 (http://matthews-woge.blogspot.de/2012/07/woge-352.html) despite some pretty obvious clues!

Despite numerous Google searches for ‘hot springs’ and ‘water parks’ I rambled all across the globe before deciding the landscape looked decidely Amazonian! Following what must rank as one of the most obvious hints in WOGE history a Google search of ‘Hot Springs Brazil’ led me right to the intended target! I am not someone to look a gift horse in the mouth so I’ll grasp my opportunity and move the game along……..

I will invoke the Schott rule purely to try and encourage new winners, plus I have a feeling this will be solved quickly, apologies to those of you who are likely sick of this rule ruining your fun! For a full set of rules see here -  http://woge-felix.blogspot.de/p/rules-of-geological-whereongoogleearth.htmlhttp://woge-felix.blogspot.de/p/rules-of-geological-whereongoogleearth.html

Ive removed the image referencing and therefore the scale bar too unfortunately, FYI the shot is 5.5km across and 3km up/down. Best of luck:

 *EDIT (30th Aug): This devilish locality seems to have got the hole WOGE community stumped, either that or there are some serious summer holidays underway! Hopefully the below might help those who are attempting the challenge……………

*EDIT (9th Sept): Well either Ive made thisone a little too hard or everyone has given up?! In the interests of moving the game on I’ll add two  images, one zoomed right in and one right out, which should hopefully provide the information required to get us out of this hole!

 

 

 

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Is there anybody out there? Are peopl struggling with the location or is the number of active players so depleted?!

If there’s no movement by tomorrow (30th) then I’ll post another image.

Whether to zoom in or out is the question?????

Out, definitely out!

I’d favor out, too!

This is rather hard IMHO. However, I didn’t have very much time to try it.

Chris: On Monday evening your blog didn’t show up. I think it was a temporary blogetery problem. Lately we need a little patience with WOGE.

Yours looked easy for the first glance. The fields and hedges looked very much like Great Britain. Also whenever the host of a WOGE removes the copyright information, this means a kind of revealing copyright. So it could have been Great Britain with the “Infoterra Ltd & Bluesky” copyright. But it isn’t, otherwise I would have found it already there. It’s not in Ireland either.

So very likely I would guess we have only two areas left: France with “IGN-France” and parts of Spain with “Institut Cartografic de Catalunya”. We do not have an easy to find structure on the picture, so it takes some time to find it. On one picture I see a white quarry, so it could be a limestone area.

Are there any other guesses out there?

Patience I have, just happy to hear there is someone out there!!!

44.856758°, 1.746504°: France, Gouffre de Padirac

The Gouffre de Padirac is a large cave whithin the Causses mountains. The roof of a cavern collapsed up to the surface and formed a sink hole with a diameter of 35meters and a depth of 103 meters. The Causses mountains are a
group of jurrasic limestone plateaus (700-1,200 m) between the Massif Central and the Pyrenees.

This map http://cpgeosystems.com/150_Jur_EurMap_plates.jpg shows the area in the Late Jurrasics. France and South Germany were covered by the sea and large limestone layers evolved.

Pictures of the Gouffre: http://www.gouffre-de-padirac.com/#/en

When I was browsing the web for the geology of Woge353, everything I found was identical to my area in South Germany : http://www.blauhoehle.com/www/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57&Itemid=71

Congratulations to Felix, or as they say here in the Middle East “Humdulullah”

Thank goodness we got there in the end!

Over to you Felix…………….

WOGE354 can be found here: http://woge-felix.blogspot.de/2012/09/where-on-google-earth-354.html

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