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Geology Picture of the Week, November 9-15, 2003: A tough WhereIsIt? challenge

Posted on 11/12/2003 12:57:35 PM PST by cogitator

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I made an error with the link on the chat section page, so I'm providing the picture that should be there below (it's also found in a reply to myself). As per usual, please direct all discussion to the link below.

This WhereIsIt? challenge is first to determine where this is, and second to determine why it's geologically significant.

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Geology Picture of the Week, November 9-15, 2003: A tough WhereIsIt? challenge

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: church; elves; lastpair; quarry; stone; suave
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I'll be shocked if someone guesses the extra impact of this picture on terrestrial geology.
1 posted on 11/12/2003 12:57:35 PM PST by cogitator
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To: cogitator
I'll be shocked if someone guesses the extra impact of this picture on terrestrial geology.

Located in one of the "impact craters" in Europe???

2 posted on 11/12/2003 1:00:30 PM PST by Onelifetogive
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To: cogitator
BERLIN
3 posted on 11/12/2003 1:01:05 PM PST by 1Old Pro (ESPN now has 4 little wimpy sissies left. I'm switching back to FOX.)
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To: cogitator
Grenwich, England?
4 posted on 11/12/2003 1:01:37 PM PST by Prof Engineer (This is NOT the government the Founders intended. ~ Golden Corral supports troops and veterans)
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Iguess Basel....
5 posted on 11/12/2003 1:01:42 PM PST by bert (Don't Panic!)
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To: cogitator
I'm going to guess that is on the square in Siena, Italy.

I have no idea of the terrestrial significance.

Could it be that the well in the square in Siena was one of those measured to determine and estimate for the size of the Earth?

I'm shootin' in the dark here...
6 posted on 11/12/2003 1:01:45 PM PST by gridlock (Countdown to Hillary!: Seven days... Hillary! will announce for President on Weds. Nov 19, 2003)
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To: cogitator
I have no clue.
7 posted on 11/12/2003 1:02:48 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: Onelifetogive
Did you cheat like I did?

Hint: right-click on the picture, click on properties, and look at the URL.

-PJ

8 posted on 11/12/2003 1:04:41 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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Oh, somebody read that! Smart.

You're part of the way there, but you have to be much more specific. It's not just the location; but you're right so far on your premise.

9 posted on 11/12/2003 1:08:05 PM PST by cogitator
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To: 1Old Pro
No, but Germany, yes.
10 posted on 11/12/2003 1:08:25 PM PST by cogitator
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To: Prof Engineer
Sorry...
11 posted on 11/12/2003 1:08:38 PM PST by cogitator
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To: Political Junkie Too
Did you cheat like I did?

No...just a wild guess...

12 posted on 11/12/2003 1:08:49 PM PST by Onelifetogive
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To: gridlock
Nope, try again: read some of the thread responses.
13 posted on 11/12/2003 1:09:00 PM PST by cogitator
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Wittenburg?
14 posted on 11/12/2003 1:09:33 PM PST by The Grammarian
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To: Political Junkie Too
No fair telling what you found out.
15 posted on 11/12/2003 1:09:48 PM PST by cogitator
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To: The Grammarian
Nope, but the church is the item of interest here, too.
16 posted on 11/12/2003 1:10:59 PM PST by cogitator
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To: cogitator
Freehold, NJ?
17 posted on 11/12/2003 1:15:22 PM PST by billb
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Sorry... :-(

-PJ

18 posted on 11/12/2003 1:15:46 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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The church is constructed of the stone debris from the meteor itself. It is situated in the remains of a crater in the town of Rochechouart

Rochechouart Meteorite Impact Site, France

http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate/field/rochechouart/

19 posted on 11/12/2003 1:17:27 PM PST by WilliamWallace1999
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HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY

214 million years ago, in the Jurassic age (of the great sauriens) the fall of a heavenly body, 4 kms west of Rochechouart, transformed the surface of our earth. Since then, a million and a half centuries have eroded the crater formed by the meteorite's impact.

The crater ( ASTROBLEME) with a diameter of 20 km, is almost completely eroded and can no longer be distinguished. The meteorite, with a diameter of 1 km 5 weighinh 6000 million tons impacted at 20 km/second, giving off energy equivalent to (300 000 megatons of TNT (14 000 000 times more powerful than Hiroshima). The shockwave (42000 km/s) transformed the underlying rocks to from the "BRECHE" rocks which intrigued leading geologists for a long time.
These "BRECHE" rocks resemble those taken from the moon's surface.
The certain advantage of this "tiny addition" to the earth was that the transformed rocks, the "BRECHES", were used as buiding materials in almost all the ancient constructions.
20 posted on 11/12/2003 1:20:09 PM PST by WilliamWallace1999
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