On 7/25/25 12:04, Dan Tilque wrote:
Here are some geographic names that are a bit on the obscure side. All
you have to do is describe where these areas are in terms of more common geographic names. That is what parts of countries, states, bodies of
water, etc. they're in.
Note: I was pretty lenient on scoring. If you got in the right vicinity,
I gave credit.
1. Beringia
The area under the Bering Sea plus nearby parts of North America and Asia.
Joshua got this one.
This is one of those that are now under water but were land during the
ice ages. It made a land bridge between the continents that the original Americans came over.
2. Deccan Traps
Large Igneous Province (LIP) in Western India. An LIP is where humongous amounts of lava flowed out of the ground in a relatively short period of
time. Humongous here meaning about a million cubic kilometers. The
Deccan Traps are noteable because they happened at the same time as the Dinosaurs became extinct. In fact, the main competing theory to
Chicxulub about why that extinction happened was the Deccan Traps.
There's also a theory that the Deccan Trap flow was increased by
Chicxulub, since the two were approximately antipodal.
Etymology trvia: "trap" is from the Swedish word "trapp" meaning stairs.
The rock formations in places have a stairstep look.
Dan Blum got this one.
3. Doggerland
Southern part of what is now the North Sea, stretching from England to Denmark. Another Ice Age land.
Everyone (Erland, Joshua, and Dan Blum) got this.
4. Driftless Area
Area in southwestern Wisconsin plus nearby parts of adjacent states.
It's called Driftless because it has no glacial drift, which is
geologists' way of refering to various rocks and stuff left by glaciers
when they melt. So glaciers never got to this part of the state,
although they did to the rest.
5. Macaronesia
Several groups of islands in the eastern Atlantic. From north to south: Azores, Madiera, Savage Islands, Canaries, Cape Verde Islands.
Joshua got this one.
6. Palouse
Region of rolling hills in southwest Washington state plus a little bit
of Idaho.
7. Sahul (not the Sahel)
Ice age continent composed of New Guinea, Australia, Tasmania plus the
what are now the seas between them. Another ice age land.
Dan Blum got this one.
8. Salish Sea
Puget Sound up through the Georgian Strait.
Dan Blum got this one.
9. Sundaland
SE Asia mainland and western Indonesia, plus all the seas between them.
Yet another ice age land, since all those seas were above water back
then. I expect the name comes from the Sunda Strait.
10. Zealandia
Region of continental crust to the east of Australia. Mostly flooded,
(even during the ice ages) but New Zealand and New Caledonia plus other smaller islands are part of it. Sometimes called the eighth continent by geologists.
Scores:
Dan Blum: 4
Joshua: 2
Erland: 1
Congratulations Dan.
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Dan Tilque
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