Geopuzzle # 17
Category: geopuzzling
Can you tell me what's going on in this video?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:31 PM • 6 Comments •
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geopuzzling:
Geopuzzle #16
Category: geopuzzling
A giant limnological mystery in Canada.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:36 AM • 13 Comments •
Dike swarms and continental barcodes
Category: geopuzzling
Who would have thought a mess of ridges could hold the key to reconstructing past geographies?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Geopuzzle #15
Category: geology
Since this whole geopuzzle malarky was kicked off by a mystery Google Earth image, here's another one for you. One (fairly) obvious feature of this image are the long linear features, which are almost certainly geological in origin. What could...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:14 PM • 9 Comments •
The Stirling fauna: big critters from the dawn of time?
Category: fossils
I really wasn't intending to leave Geopuzzle 14 hanging out unanswered on the interweb for as long as it has - and not just because my delay has apparently put my beer stash in jeopardy. The answer is actually both...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:53 AM • 6 Comments •
Geopuzzle #14
Category: geopuzzling
This authors of the paper the figure below comes from claim that it's a fossil of some kind: Do you agree? What do you think it is, and how old do you think it is?...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:38 AM • 22 Comments •
Larger than your average mica
Ooh, and it's shiny, too!
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:43 PM • 4 Comments •
Geopuzzle #13
Category: geopuzzling
Whilst I struggle to cope with the suddent onset of dementia in my beloved but aging laptop (which causes it to switch off 5 seconds after I switch it on, before it even gets to the stage of booting up),...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:18 AM • 17 Comments •
Geopuzzle #12 (finally) revisited
Category: geopuzzling
The answer? I dunno...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:33 AM • 3 Comments •
Geopuzzle #12
Category: geology
This is not so much a puzzle as a mystery, in that I'm not entirely sure myself what this is: I do have a guess, of course, but I'll be interested to see what all you clever folk think. Here's...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 2:06 PM • 17 Comments •
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