[cogitator]

Hope you'll enjoy this little challenge.

[cogitator]

** ping **

[IrishCatholic]

It’s where Captain Kirk fought the lizard captain and defeated him by making gunpowder. Don’t remember the star coordinates.

[kc8ukw]

So from skimming your profile, it seems you believe in man-caused global warming. Are you also then in favor of the many various methods intended to control it? (From little things like banning incandescent bulbs to cap & trade?)

[abigailsmybaby]

Galapagos Islands.

[rintense]

Question for any geologists here:

Are there maps of area water tables? I live in Michigan, in an area where there has been a lot of flooding, for the first time ever. County officials are saying the water tables are at fault, being over saturated due to high rates of snow melt off and rain. I don’t buy it since we’ve had worse than this. The flooding also seems to be in a specific line, from north to south along the same street (probably a 12 mile line) and around a mile wide. The waters have been so high, people can use canoes and kayaks. Many homes have been flooded. Also, these homes are around a mile from Lake Michigan, yet, no homes near the Lake, nor to the east of that line had reported issues.

I totally believe this is a man made problem- that someone somewhere forgot to do proper drainage. So I’m looking for some sort of way to prove water tables are not the culprit. Until a solution is found, several homes will continually flood throughout the summer.

The only major construction has been a golf course four years ago, that is around a half mile east of the affected area. The course builders said they found a natural aqua spring underground to use for watering, yet neighbors insist since the golf course was built, their water pressure has severely decline.

[dr_lew]

I recognized it instantly. What kind of sick point are you trying to make?

[stormer]

Hmmm... tropical, may be basalt, important geologically and interestingly geographically... two wild guesses - Juan Fernandez Islands or Cape Verde.

[21twelve]

The mountain doesn’t look like it, at least from the vantage point that I had, but the surrounding terrain does - Carstensweide (sp?) peak in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. I’m thinking the mountain may have another name too (more Indonesian rather than the original Dutch). The closer rocks with the anticline look like the limestone in the region.

[fnord]

southern France, outside of Marseille

[cogitator]

ANSWER: This was a toughie, because not many people have seen this place, and as I noted, that's because it's pretty remote. The name of the feature is Pico da Neblina, and it's the highest point in Brazil. It's on the Guyana Shield which also hosts the "tepui", which are the sandstone mesas in southern Venezuela and Guyana, the most famous of which is probably Mount Roraima, "The Lost World", and the second-most famous is likely Auyantepui, from whence stemmeth Angel Falls. However, Pico da Neblina isn't truly a tepui because it's a peak, not a mesa. Accordig to Wikipedia, "Pico da Neblina is a glaciated tor composed of a tilted block of sandstone overlying Precambrian metamorphic rocks."

Here's a truly "Lost World" image of Roraima:

The name "Pico da Neblina" means "Peak of the Mists"; I used the word "nebulous" in the actual post, as a clue. Told you it wasn't going to be easy.

[GregB]

It is where Obama came from the heavens.....