Farewell Beacon..., The next cape beckons... |
Farewell Beacon..., The next cape beckons... |
Nov 26 2006, 03:58 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
Wow! If I live to be a hundred, I'll never understand why we've sailed right on past the Beacon toward "Boat Ramp". I agree that the deepest exposures are the most important, but Beacon is the highest! It's sitting right there waiting for us. It's the top of the section. Whether it's composed of impact breccia or undisturbed laminated evaporite determines whether Victoria formed after or before the deposition of the upper Planitia Meridiani. I can't believe that is a trivial issue. It is a fundamental fact of Victoria's history.
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Nov 26 2006, 04:48 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 240 Joined: 18-July 06 Member No.: 981 |
Hoy is more likely at the end of the c1-c2 cape. There are two capes in the image and a bay between them barely visible.
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Nov 26 2006, 09:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Hoy is more likely at the end of the c1-c2 cape. There are two capes in the image and a bay between them barely visible. It looks that way to me too. That would mean we're only seeing the top of the B cape cliffs so far and they go some way further down. The 'Old Man of Hoy' might just be the tallest vertical feature in Victoria. Unfortunately Magellan didn't sail past Orkney (or Cape Horn, which would have been an ideal official name). |
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