I have read that book. Starts out good, gets increasingly stupid later. But a “lite” version of that scenario is about how I imagine it playing out.
No, not the Moon dinosaurs. I love Moon dinosaurs.
Add Marsal Lake in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region:
Mount Taranaki is quite circular:
Under repair. I’ll be back.
If you use Windows:
- Bring up the picture you want to post
- Press shift-Windows-S to bring up the snipper tool
- Drag a box around the thing you want to post
- Bring up imgur.com
- ctrl-V directly into the browser
- Wait a bit and then “copy link”
- Paste the link into the SDMB
But that’s a legal construct, not a geological one.
The forest reserve was created within a 6-mile (9.6-kilometre) radius around the cone of the dormant Mount Taranaki volcano. Areas encompassing the older volcanic remnants of Pouakai and Kaitake were later added to the reserve at the northwest side. The forest is surrounded on all sides by pasture, giving it a distinctly circular shape.
Government marks out a perfectly circular area as a forest reserve, and local farmers and ranchers creating pasture right up to the border guarantee it will be a sharply delineated circle.
That would put the park into the right-hand circle in Randall’s Venn diagram.
(But you probably already knew that. I didn’t, so thanks for pointing it out.)
From the xkcd comic:
Delaware’s northern border
Yup. That’s why I grouped it with that.
Well, the main reason for being on the right side is that it’s not a meteor impact, but is definitely a weird circle on the map.
Chromebook - most times, no problem - but perhaps I wasn’t quick enough on the Reply button.
Speaking of weird circles, I love that Randall draws even his geometric shapes by hand.
I’m sure that his “Oh, Just Give Me a Sliver of Pie” Chart would’ve been quicker with a compass or template and a straight edge… but no, he takes the time to give us a well-drawn but analog circle!
Both subsurface microbes and parasitoid wasps seem pretty normal to me.
Heck, I’ve seen them in concert a couple of years ago; awesome!
Aren’t we all doing that, all the time?
But you have to have your legs apart, knees bent with your arms out. Otherwise you’re just a tectonic hodad.
(I remember seeing the Tectonic Hodads play at the Fillmore way back when.)
Thanks for the new word! (Well, new to me, anyway.)