{"id":3418,"date":"2008-11-07T07:36:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T07:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/11\/geopuzzle-16\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T07:36:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T07:36:29","slug":"geopuzzle-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/11\/geopuzzle-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Geopuzzle #16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks challenge comes via fellow Scibling Martin of <a href=http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/aardvarchaeology\/>Aardvarchaeology<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed something funny about the map of North America. The Great Lakes in the US form the end of a straight line of huge lakes extending north-west across Canada. Could you please tell me how that line of lakes formed?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like he has a point:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"canadasat.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/canadasat.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, this is one of those situations where I can make an educated guess about the answer, but I&#8217;m neither sure if it&#8217;s right or if I&#8217;m grasping the full story. If I&#8217;m even approaching a clue, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/11\/OneGeologyCanada.kml\">this<\/a> (right click to download) or <a href=http:\/\/apps1.gdr.nrcan.gc.ca\/mirage\/full_result_e.php?id=208175>this<\/a> may prove helpful. Or not. Either way, get guessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant limnological mystery in Canada.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/11\/geopuzzle-16\/\">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":[4,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geology","category-geopuzzling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","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=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}