Talk:3221: Landscape Features - Revision history

2600:1006:B137:6466:48C3:2BC9:BCBB:7CD4: Maybe "landscape" as a political term?

2026-03-24T20:04:40Z

Maybe "landscape" as a political term?

John at 11:22, 23 March 2026

2026-03-23T11:22:57Z

82.13.184.33 at 09:23, 23 March 2026

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82.13.184.33 at 09:21, 23 March 2026

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82.13.184.33 at 09:19, 23 March 2026

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2600:100C:B06A:4BC9:F540:8A2A:DBC4:E9AE: Lake of the Woods

2026-03-22T04:35:22Z

Lake of the Woods

81.179.199.253 at 19:52, 21 March 2026

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82.132.238.5 at 16:29, 21 March 2026

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71.212.36.151 at 04:46, 21 March 2026

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Erika lovelace at 17:36, 20 March 2026

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	Glaciers came within 50 miles of Philadelphia (the so-called “south mountain” southeast of Allentown/Bethlehem is a terminal moraine from the Wisconsin glaciation approximately 17,000 years ago) and the line between “glaciers” and “farming” should be much further south in Pennsylvania. [[User:John\|John]] ([[User talk:John\|talk]]) 11:22, 23 March 2026 (UTC)		Glaciers came within 50 miles of Philadelphia (the so-called “south mountain” southeast of Allentown/Bethlehem is a terminal moraine from the Wisconsin glaciation approximately 17,000 years ago) and the line between “glaciers” and “farming” should be much further south in Pennsylvania. [[User:John\|John]] ([[User talk:John\|talk]]) 11:22, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
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		+	No consideration for "landscape" as a political term? The appearance of blue cities in otherwise red states is only one example of what some might consider unusual current landscape in contemporary USA. [[Special:Contributions/2600:1006:B137:6466:48C3:2BC9:BCBB:7CD4\|2600:1006:B137:6466:48C3:2BC9:BCBB:7CD4]] 20:04, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

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	:Also missing the “…geology” section surrounding the supervolcano. {{unsigned ip\|146.115.160.214\|21:58, 18 March 2026}}		:Also missing the “…geology” section surrounding the supervolcano. {{unsigned ip\|146.115.160.214\|21:58, 18 March 2026}}
	::Got it.[[User:Fephisto\|Fephisto]] ([[User talk:Fephisto\|talk]]) 00:11, 19 March 2026 (UTC)		::Got it.[[User:Fephisto\|Fephisto]] ([[User talk:Fephisto\|talk]]) 00:11, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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		+	Glaciers came within 50 miles of Philadelphia (the so-called “south mountain” southeast of Allentown/Bethlehem is a terminal moraine from the Wisconsin glaciation approximately 17,000 years ago) and the line between “glaciers” and “farming” should be much further south in Pennsylvania. [[User:John\|John]] ([[User talk:John\|talk]]) 11:22, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

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 Hotspots create almost-constantly active volcanos, so they are a very bad go-to explanation. Shirluban [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 14:09, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
-'Glacier National Park' in Southeast Alaska is properly 'Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve' [[User:Dbguy|Dbguy]] ([[User talk:Dbguy|talk]]) 19:55, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
+'Glacier National Park' in Southeast Alaska is properly 'Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve' {{unsigned ip|97.115.101.239|16:22, 19 March 2026 (UTC)}}
-Was the morphology of the Great Plains (Central column of the U.S.) really created by farming? How does ~10K years of Native American management of the land for grasslands make it flat? I thought the flat, erm, planar aspect was due to it having been a large shallow seabed.
+Was the morphology of the Great Plains (Central column of the U.S.) really created by farming? How does ~10K years of Native American management of the land for grasslands make it flat? I thought the flat, erm, planar aspect was due to it having been a large shallow seabed. [[User:Dbguy|Dbguy]] ([[User talk:Dbguy|talk]]) 19:55, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
 : Remember the prompt is "what's up with this weird landscape?". I think what's going on in those places is that, given the flat topography, a lot of the "weird" features people point out (especially from the air) are likely to be geometric patterns formed by large-scale crop farming. [[Special:Contributions/136.56.99.85|136.56.99.85]] 21:02, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

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 Hotspots create almost-constantly active volcanos, so they are a very bad go-to explanation. Shirluban [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 14:09, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
-'Glacier National Park' in Southeast Alaska is properly 'Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve'
+'Glacier National Park' in Southeast Alaska is properly 'Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve' [[User:Dbguy|Dbguy]] ([[User talk:Dbguy|talk]]) 19:55, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
-[[User:Dbguy|Dbguy]] ([[User talk:Dbguy|talk]]) 19:55, 19 March 2026 (UTC) Was the morphology of the Great Plains (Central column of the U.S.) really created by farming? How does ~10K years of Native American management of the land for grasslands make it flat? I thought the flat, erm, planar aspect was due to it having been a large shallow seabed.
+Was the morphology of the Great Plains (Central column of the U.S.) really created by farming? How does ~10K years of Native American management of the land for grasslands make it flat? I thought the flat, erm, planar aspect was due to it having been a large shallow seabed.
 : Remember the prompt is "what's up with this weird landscape?". I think what's going on in those places is that, given the flat topography, a lot of the "weird" features people point out (especially from the air) are likely to be geometric patterns formed by large-scale crop farming. [[Special:Contributions/136.56.99.85|136.56.99.85]] 21:02, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

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 Hotspots create almost-constantly active volcanos, so they are a very bad go-to explanation. Shirluban [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 14:09, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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 :Also missing the “…geology” section surrounding the supervolcano. {{unsigned ip|146.115.160.214|21:58, 18 March 2026}}
 ::Got it.[[User:Fephisto|Fephisto]] ([[User talk:Fephisto|talk]]) 00:11, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

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	I'm surprised Randall didn't include glacial activity in the PNW. Washington state has quite a bit, particularly the Puget Sound region. {{unsigned ip\|71.212.36.151\|04:46, 21 March 2026}}		I'm surprised Randall didn't include glacial activity in the PNW. Washington state has quite a bit, particularly the Puget Sound region. {{unsigned ip\|71.212.36.151\|04:46, 21 March 2026}}
	:I think the intention might have been to extend the Alaskan region (SE Alaska/Inside Passage) from the map-insert to the main/contiguous map area. It'd need just a short line of red to make this relationship obvious. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.199.253\|81.179.199.253]] 19:52, 21 March 2026 (UTC)		:I think the intention might have been to extend the Alaskan region (SE Alaska/Inside Passage) from the map-insert to the main/contiguous map area. It'd need just a short line of red to make this relationship obvious. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.199.253\|81.179.199.253]] 19:52, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
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		+	Is there any explanation for the shape of Lake of the Woods? Is that intentional?
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	I'm surprised Randall didn't include glacial activity in the PNW. Washington state has quite a bit, particularly the Puget Sound region. {{unsigned ip\|71.212.36.151\|04:46, 21 March 2026}}		I'm surprised Randall didn't include glacial activity in the PNW. Washington state has quite a bit, particularly the Puget Sound region. {{unsigned ip\|71.212.36.151\|04:46, 21 March 2026}}
		+	:I think the intention might have been to extend the Alaskan region (SE Alaska/Inside Passage) from the map-insert to the main/contiguous map area. It'd need just a short line of red to make this relationship obvious. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.199.253\|81.179.199.253]] 19:52, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

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	The current west coast plate tectonics speed run explanation doesn't quite cover it. The Juan de Fuca plate off the PNW and the Cocos plate off of Central America used to be connected as the Farallon plate. The various geological features of the west coast used to be islands and microcontinents on the Farallon plate that got scraped off and accreted to the growing coastline as the Farallon got subducted. Then, as the divergent boundary between the Farallon and Pacific plates was itself subducted, the resulting faulting scrambled everything. [[User:Erika lovelace\|Erika lovelace]] ([[User talk:Erika lovelace\|talk]]) 17:36, 20 March 2026 (UTC)		The current west coast plate tectonics speed run explanation doesn't quite cover it. The Juan de Fuca plate off the PNW and the Cocos plate off of Central America used to be connected as the Farallon plate. The various geological features of the west coast used to be islands and microcontinents on the Farallon plate that got scraped off and accreted to the growing coastline as the Farallon got subducted. Then, as the divergent boundary between the Farallon and Pacific plates was itself subducted, the resulting faulting scrambled everything. [[User:Erika lovelace\|Erika lovelace]] ([[User talk:Erika lovelace\|talk]]) 17:36, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

−	I'm surprised Randall didn't include glacial activity in the PNW. Washington state has quite a bit, particularly the Puget Sound region.	+	I'm surprised Randall didn't include glacial activity in the PNW. Washington state has quite a bit, particularly the Puget Sound region. {{unsigned ip\|71.212.36.151\|04:46, 21 March 2026}}

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	The current west coast plate tectonics speed run explanation doesn't quite cover it. The Juan de Fuca plate off the PNW and the Cocos plate off of Central America used to be connected as the Farallon plate. The various geological features of the west coast used to be islands and microcontinents on the Farallon plate that got scraped off and accreted to the growing coastline as the Farallon got subducted. Then, as the divergent boundary between the Farallon and Pacific plates was itself subducted, the resulting faulting scrambled everything. [[User:Erika lovelace\|Erika lovelace]] ([[User talk:Erika lovelace\|talk]]) 17:36, 20 March 2026 (UTC)		The current west coast plate tectonics speed run explanation doesn't quite cover it. The Juan de Fuca plate off the PNW and the Cocos plate off of Central America used to be connected as the Farallon plate. The various geological features of the west coast used to be islands and microcontinents on the Farallon plate that got scraped off and accreted to the growing coastline as the Farallon got subducted. Then, as the divergent boundary between the Farallon and Pacific plates was itself subducted, the resulting faulting scrambled everything. [[User:Erika lovelace\|Erika lovelace]] ([[User talk:Erika lovelace\|talk]]) 17:36, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
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		+	I'm surprised Randall didn't include glacial activity in the PNW. Washington state has quite a bit, particularly the Puget Sound region.

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	I like how we've apparently all agreed at the moment that "Geology outside of Yellowstone in the West is basically just Heart Mountain." [[User:Fephisto\|Fephisto]] ([[User talk:Fephisto\|talk]]) 14:49, 20 March 2026 (UTC)		I like how we've apparently all agreed at the moment that "Geology outside of Yellowstone in the West is basically just Heart Mountain." [[User:Fephisto\|Fephisto]] ([[User talk:Fephisto\|talk]]) 14:49, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
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		+	The current west coast plate tectonics speed run explanation doesn't quite cover it. The Juan de Fuca plate off the PNW and the Cocos plate off of Central America used to be connected as the Farallon plate. The various geological features of the west coast used to be islands and microcontinents on the Farallon plate that got scraped off and accreted to the growing coastline as the Farallon got subducted. Then, as the divergent boundary between the Farallon and Pacific plates was itself subducted, the resulting faulting scrambled everything. [[User:Erika lovelace\|Erika lovelace]] ([[User talk:Erika lovelace\|talk]]) 17:36, 20 March 2026 (UTC)