tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post9221527963175967232..comments2015-09-02T14:16:16.050+01:00Comments on Matthew's WOGE Blog: WOGE #426 update 3Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615753082396788340noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post-8256734667943753762014-02-28T13:14:31.540+00:002014-02-28T13:14:31.540+00:00Congratulations Ole,
I was hoping that whoever fou...Congratulations Ole,<br />I was hoping that whoever found this would be able to give us some more insight into the possible geology. I figured out that this is the only remnant of an erosion resistant limestone in the area, but I could not have guessed exactly why it is there.<br />Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615753082396788340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post-23856179274587488252014-02-28T12:23:52.101+00:002014-02-28T12:23:52.101+00:00http://overburdenblog.blogspot.no/2014/02/woge-427...http://overburdenblog.blogspot.no/2014/02/woge-427.html is upOle Tjugenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465157136272803838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post-62166914268555238362014-02-27T16:53:11.441+00:002014-02-27T16:53:11.441+00:00Hang on - this isn't an outlier at all! I thin...Hang on - this isn't an outlier at all! I think it's the core of a recumbent fold, the southern edge of the "plateu" is the older Jurssic rocks and the flatter main part represents the fold plane - possibly the cleavage in the fold plane became a weak slip plane during erosion?<br /><br />This is only speculation, but if it were an outlier I would expect to find the same formation more or less horizontally somewhere in the region. And I can't find any.Ole Tjugenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465157136272803838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post-83838764173630211662014-02-27T16:26:36.395+00:002014-02-27T16:26:36.395+00:00Found it.
36°54' N 55° 4' E
Ghalee Miran...Found it.<br /> 36°54' N 55° 4' E<br />Ghalee Miran in Golestan, northern Iran.<br />This is at the edge of the Alborz range, formed by the Paleo-Tethyan continent-continent collision suture. From what I can see this mountain is not actually on the Alborz range side of the thrust fault, but represents a small remnant of Jurassic to Cretaceous sediments that have for some reason not been eroded away. <br />The base of the mountain is the Carboniferous Mobarak Formation, unconformally overlaid by Jurassic Lar formation and two Cretaceous units I can't find names for. Ole Tjugenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465157136272803838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post-47679332478944978112014-02-26T21:34:10.193+00:002014-02-26T21:34:10.193+00:00I think the mountain might be considered an "...I think the mountain might be considered an "outlier", but my grasp of geology is not good enough to say for certain that the term applies.<br />You did identify the type of rock correctly.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615753082396788340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post-32831360360584277682014-02-26T20:05:29.873+00:002014-02-26T20:05:29.873+00:00As I'm living on 450m, I would say 2.000 meter...As I'm living on 450m, I would say 2.000 meters are high. The lime stone platform (lime stone I thing??) , is that a so called "Inlier" ?? <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inliers_and_outliers_%28geology%29Felix Bosserthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964674651331212440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post-8831056577779744432014-02-26T12:45:43.239+00:002014-02-26T12:45:43.239+00:00Felix,
It depends on whether you consider 1800 met...Felix,<br />It depends on whether you consider 1800 meters to be a "higher altitude".<br />As for the latitude, the shadows in this WOGE definitely are much shorter than those in the last edition. Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615753082396788340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post-29555235200758005592014-02-25T20:31:32.563+00:002014-02-25T20:31:32.563+00:00I would say the snow means, that we have a higher ...I would say the snow means, that we have a higher altitude, but does not necessarily mean that we are in a very northern area.Felix Bosserthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964674651331212440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post-74569009893480371252014-02-24T15:07:00.615+00:002014-02-24T15:07:00.615+00:00I am glad the hint was helpful. This mountain caug...I am glad the hint was helpful. This mountain caught my attention because it is very different from its surroundings. So... if you find a mountain that looks similar, don't bother focusing on the immediate area. That strategy won't work this time. Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615753082396788340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244188224231734238.post-35488871131167982402014-02-23T20:54:11.624+00:002014-02-23T20:54:11.624+00:00That is one strange mountain. The more I look at i...That is one strange mountain. The more I look at it, the more I think I understand the geology - but the location eludes me.<br />The deciduous trees didn't help much, I had already seen that from the first image - but at least the snow cover narrowed the geographical range a little.Ole Tjugenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465157136272803838noreply@blogger.com