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Geology Picture of the Week, August 16-22, 2009: A Little Puzzle about Mount Assiniboine
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Posted on 08/18/2009 10:25:26 PM PDT by cogitator
Why this mountain?
My little puzzle is: I have a specific reason for posting these pictures now of the photogenic Mount Assiniboine in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, Alberta (adjacent to Banff and Kootenay National Parks). Anybody astute enough to guess what the reason is?
(Click all but the second for full-size.)
![](http://besthike.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/anemones.jpg)
![](http://www.bergoiata.org/fe/winter/Pure%20Snow%20and%20Alpine%20Glow,%20Mount%20Assiniboine,%20British%20Columbia.jpg)
![](http://www.wg3too.net/Scenic/1600x1200/Mount%20Assiniboine,%20Provincial%20Park,%20British%20Columbia.jpg)
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: banff; canada; icon; mountain
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Second feature: here's a picture from a satellite of a city that I can pretty much totally guarantee I will never, ever visit.
Ulaan Batar
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posted on
08/18/2009 10:25:27 PM PDT
by
cogitator
To: 2Trievers; headsonpikes; Pokey78; Lil'freeper; epsjr; sauropod; Miss Marple; CPT Clay; ...
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posted on
08/18/2009 10:26:39 PM PDT
by
cogitator
To: cogitator
always wondered what it meant to have an ass in a boine. now I know.
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posted on
08/18/2009 10:30:24 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(this slope is getting slippereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...)
To: cogitator
I’ll venture a guess, the shape of the mountain itself?
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posted on
08/18/2009 10:33:07 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: cogitator
Something's missing:
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posted on
08/18/2009 10:41:31 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
To: JRios1968
how about......if you can’t bring Mohammed to the mountain, you bring the moutain to Mohammed?......
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posted on
08/18/2009 10:43:37 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: rfp1234
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posted on
08/18/2009 10:43:50 PM PDT
by
FrogMom
(No such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: cherry
or.....an ass is an ass is an ass no matter which way you look at it?
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posted on
08/18/2009 10:44:28 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: cogitator
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posted on
08/18/2009 10:45:45 PM PDT
by
FrogMom
(No such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: FrogMom
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posted on
08/18/2009 11:08:29 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
To: FrogMom; cogitator
Looks like a pyramid. Exactly. Aha, the connection then is that Egyptian PM Mubarak visited the White House today. Am I close to solving the puzzle?
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posted on
08/18/2009 11:22:25 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
To: cogitator
[I have a specific reason for posting these pictures now of the photogenic Mount Assiniboine in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, Alberta (adjacent to Banff and Kootenay National Parks). Anybody astute enough to guess what the reason is?]
They’re still covered with snow in defiance of Global Warming?
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posted on
08/18/2009 11:49:44 PM PDT
by
spinestein
(The answer is 42.)
To: cogitator
![](http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2009/08/13/cgy-squirrel-brandts.jpg)
I'm thinking it's the mountain on the right.
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posted on
08/19/2009 12:28:05 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
To: spinestein
That was my guess due to the fact that he linked to a city in Mongolia (Uaaalmoola LOL) that is said to be among the world’s coldest national capitals. So it must be weather related in my thinking and thus tied to global warming or lack thereof.
To: Robert DeLong
My guess is that they are inspirational pictures. The next mountain to climb and all that.
Just because they are pyramids and were once landing zones for alien beings has nothing to do with it.
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posted on
08/19/2009 2:27:23 AM PDT
by
2ndClassCitizen
(Aluminum foil is on sale at WalMart.)
To: cogitator
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posted on
08/19/2009 4:12:25 AM PDT
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
To: cogitator
The point of division for Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic watersheds?
Love those “hippies-on-a-stick”!
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posted on
08/19/2009 5:52:28 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: cogitator
Obvious: the rock strata are completely horizontal. The entire range was formed by erosion, not upheaval.
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posted on
08/19/2009 5:56:09 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Your opinion is doubleplusungoodthinkful. You have been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.)
To: cogitator; ctdonath2
I concur with what ctdonath2 said.
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posted on
08/19/2009 5:58:08 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Extreme right-winged mob terrorist astroturfing bitter clinging racist birther evilmongering wingnut)
To: cogitator
Spectacular!
I've tried in vain to locate an ore map of the world, or even the United States. Do you know where I might find such documentation?
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posted on
08/19/2009 8:10:39 AM PDT
by
GingisK
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