{"id":3305,"date":"2008-03-08T11:37:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T11:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/03\/geopuzzle-8-google-earth-chevron-challenge\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T11:37:20","slug":"geopuzzle-8-google-earth-chevron-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/03\/geopuzzle-8-google-earth-chevron-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Geopuzzle #8: Google Earth chevron challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, here was my original plan for this weekend: post a pictures of some of the proposed megatsunami chevrons as this week&#8217;s Geopuzzle, and then on Monday repost <a href=https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/\/2008\/03\/return_of_the_megatsunami.php>Return of the Megatsunami<\/a> together with a new post which details some interesting new developments in the tale. Sadly, <a href=http:\/\/ron.outcrop.org\/blog\/?p=141>Ron scuppered that plan<\/a> by using the Madagascar Chevrons in Where on Google Earth (even more annoyingly, even though I knew <em>exactly<\/em> where the damn things were, <a href=http:\/\/lablemminglounge.blogspot.com\/>Lab Lemming<\/a> beat me to it).<br \/>\nSo instead, I&#8217;ve decided to try something a bit different, which may or may not work. I&#8217;m proposing that we go on a chevron hunt &#8211; how many of these things can we find? Are they just distributed around the Indian Ocean, or are they found around other ocean basins? Can we get an idea of sources from looking at their distributions? It could be an interesting exercise.<br \/>\nAs a starting point, I&#8217;ve <a href=http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&#038;hl=en&#038;msa=0&#038;ll=-28.921631,116.015625&#038;spn=116.500026,239.0625&#038;t=h&#038;z=2&#038;msid=117374869064248039494.000447e8a7f4ff571b9dc>created a Google Map<\/a> which shows the locations of the pictures from <a href=https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/\/2008\/03\/return_of_the_megatsunami.php>my repost<\/a> (which I&#8217;ve put up early for reference), and Burckle Crater.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=-25.266667,33.35&amp;spn=29.219963,59.765625&amp;t=h&amp;msid=117374869064248039494.000447e8a7f4ff571b9dc&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJpVrGm2m_mqHIWGUy-2eTF1nGHgeg\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=-25.266667,33.35&amp;spn=29.219963,59.765625&amp;t=h&amp;msid=117374869064248039494.000447e8a7f4ff571b9dc&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Have a look around on the map, or in your version of Google Earth, and see if you can find any other examples. Post their locations in the comments below, and I&#8217;ll add them onto the map (with full credit to the discoverers, of course).<br \/>\nGo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find me some megatsunami deposits!<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/03\/geopuzzle-8-google-earth-chevron-challenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopuzzling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}