From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   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.   
      
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   > 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.   
      
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   > 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.   
      
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   > 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.   
      
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   > 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.   
      
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   > 6. Palouse   
      
   Region of rolling hills in southwest Washington state plus a little bit   
   of Idaho.   
      
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   > 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.   
      
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   > 8. Salish Sea   
      
   Puget Sound up through the Georgian Strait.   
      
   Dan Blum got this one.   
      
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   > 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.   
      
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   > 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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