Questions tagged [geography]
For questions that are concerned with or nested within the field of Geography; the study of lands, their features, and the relationships and complexities between and among peoples, the physical environment, and ecosystems.
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When does the International Date Line concept break down?
Edit: this is a very silly question, sorry about that :/ I won't delete it though.
When I was little and learned about the IDL, my first thought was the following: if I could do a couple of circles ...
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Is there a term for part of a country separated from the rest in general
I mean a part of a country that can't be reach from the rest without leaving the country or it's territorial water.
I don't know if exclave really covers what I'm thinking of. For example would the ...
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Why isn't Panama considered an intercontinental country?
A well-known intercontinental country (a country that exists in two or more continents) is Egypt.
It has been divided to two parts by the man-made Suez Canal. The Sinai peninsula which is at the east ...
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Are any New Guinea snakes invasive?
Papua New Guinea has many species of snakes, some of which are dangerous:
https://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/png-snakes.htm
Are any of these species invasive, or are they all indigenous?
Or, since that ...
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My snarky cousin tossed a monkey into my ability to see large cloud at 300 miles HELP!
The top of a cumulonimbus cloud is usually about 40,000 feet and can reach heights of over 60,000 feet, which would be visible for a distance of 245 or 300 miles, respectively. from How far away can ...
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How were the rainbow mountains formed?
There are several examples of rainbow mountains in various countries. How were they made?
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Most amenable coastal geographic conditions for harbors?
I've been trying to find sources detailing the natural geographic features most suitable for shipping harbors along a coast—primarily for international trade. So far, I've read vague reference to ...
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Naming dimensions of a chunk of earth [closed]
Norway would fit in a bounding box of 500x1600x3 km, where 500 km is east-west, 1600 is north-south, and 3 km is up-down. What do you call these dimensions?
When speaking about furniture, you use ...
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If the Sea level rises, will the mountains lose their height?
I read that the altitude of mountains is measured from the sea level. So, if the sea level rises significantly due to global warming, will the mountains and hills lose some of their altitudes and ...
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Difference between Hillshading and Terrain Resource Information Management
I am picking up on remote sensing. I came across a paper where they use the shaded relief model from Terrain Resource Information Management (TRIM) for hillshading. However, is it the same as the ...
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Form Lines from Strike and Dip measurements
I am looking to draw form lines on this map based on the strike and dip measurements taken on site. From what I have gathered it is an anticline with a possible second fault to the right hand side. ...
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Relationship between Indian monsoon and Indian ocean Dipole
As we know that Indian monsoon basically involves a low pressure area over Tibet Plateau and a high pressure area near Mascarene basin. How come Positive Indian ocean dipole enhances the monsoon as it ...
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Can you see the main island of Taiwan from China?
Taiwan's main island is about 100 km from China. Is it possible to see it if you are at a scenic viewing spot in China on a clear day?
This image, from a Reuters article, shows people on Pingtan ...
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What is the geographical category of the place called "Vandaforsen"?
So control of the country’s finances required control of its main
trading centres. To that end, in 1550 Gustav Vasa founded a new
harbour city on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, at Vanda
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Sun overhead in Barbados [duplicate]
The sun is directly overhead in Barbados twice a year, my guess is approx 5-6th May and 5-6th August. What are the exact dates?
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How is drainage divide defined upstream of bifurcation?
Recently, I visited the Divide Creek birfucation in Canada where a creek bifurcates with one arm flowing to Pacific and the other to Arctic Ocean and I was wondering how does this rather rare ...
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How deep could an ocean trench be on Earth theoretically? [duplicate]
I was listening to a creepypasta story on YouTube about extremely deep places in the ocean deeper than the Marianas' Trench, and that makes me wonder.
On Earth specifically, how deep could an ocean ...
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How much of Earth's oceans has each of the listed features?
Long ago, Chris Wayans, a worldbuilder, created a thought experiment switching Earth's depth with height, and vice versa. The result: Abyssia.
He even went as far as listing the following ...
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How was the sea depth under the North Pole ice sheets measured?
Google Earth doesn't show the ice sheets of the North Pole, but the undersea depth. How was this depth measured, when most of this area is covered by ice all year round?
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Guessing region of the world from coastline / border shape: geographic insights for Worldle game
The game Worldle (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/) is related to the recent craze in online once-a-day puzzles like Wordle. You are shown the outline of a country and get six guesses. For each wrong guess,...
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Would the Climate change in Southern Africa by Filling Lake Makgadikgadi Evaporation Pans with water from the Zambezi and Chobe Rivers?
I have Macro question, and have enquired and discussed this topic with numerous people. My background is more in Economics and Finance, and read a very interesting article if I am not mistaken 10-15 ...
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Does the collision of India influence the geology and geography of some of the other mountains of Asia, or just the Himalayas and Tibet?
This here is a nice and lovely map of Asia. Note that the teardrop-shaped Tibetan Plateau dominates the map, and we have India to thank. For the last 50 million years, it has been pushing upwards, ...
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Is there any place on Earth that does not have a "sub-annual" cycle/season?
I am not sure if this question makes sense, it is completely out of the blue. Over a large range of latitudes, we have 4 distinct seasons and repeat again and again the next years. Even in the poles, ...
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What is the reason behind some of the biome anomalies in Africa?
For example :
The center of Africa lies in the Equatorial region and yet, does not have tropical rainforests all the way across.
The island of Madagascar has two different biomes
Since altitude and ...
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Is there a meridian that only passes through water (excl. continental Antarctica)?
The question is quite simple, does there exist a meridian on Earth that only passes over water, with the exception of continental Antarctica of course.
From eyeballing a world map it seems somewhere ...
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Do these islands exist or are they technical artifacts?
I am using data in a GIS application that shows some land or islands in areas where I would not expect such, or at least have never heard that there are islands.
How to find these in Google Earth? Do ...
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What characteristics are considered when distinguishing a place based on physiographic provinces?
Wikipedia describes a concept called "physiographic provinces". If I understand right, geologists simply created lines on a map, to create clusters of places that are geologically similar.
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What is the area of prominient peaks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn#/media/File:On_the_summit.jpg shows a climber on top of Matterhorn.It really looks like the area is quite small maybe 2 m^2. What is the typical area of ...
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What would be the effects of a large forest fire on soil in other places?
Say a large forest fire took place. As I understand it, the smoke and ash would ride the wind and could be a health hazard even to people that are quite far away.
My question is will it damage the ...
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How to calculate relative humidity with temperature and dew point? [duplicate]
I got this formula for calculating-
100x(EXP.((17.625x32)/(243.04+32)/EXP.((17.625x54)/(243.04+54)))=?
The answer should be 43, but I Keep getting 65. Please, can anyone calculate this correctly?
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Boundary between areas having frequent versus infrequent forest fires
In some parts of North America, such as California, the climax ecosystem has frequent forest fires -- that is, relatively dry forest that in absence of human intervention would burn perhaps every ...
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Is Challenger Deep really the deepest place in the ocean?
We have all been told at some point that the Mariana Trench is the deepest place in the ocean, but is that really true? More than 80% of the world's oceans are unexplored, so couldn't there be a much ...
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What is the southernmost landmass not covered by the Antarctic Treaty? [closed]
I know Bouvet Island is quite south. Is there anything southern than that?
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Lowest point between Denali and Aconcagua
Background
The Denali (Mount McKinley) is the third most prominent mountain on earth.
According to wikipedia It has a height of 6,191 meters, a prominence of 6,144 meters, and a "col" of 6,...
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Is there any single, generally accepted statistic describing the flatness of a given territory?
I'm very interested in Russian history, and this led me the other day to look at a beautiful painting of the famous Vladimir Highway. The painting is famous in its own right, and is said to express ...
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What happens with the isogonic lines at the South Pole?
While reading about sundials, I've seen maps depicting isogonic lines (those that connect points with the same magnetic declination values). Pray tell, what's happening in Antarctica? Why does it ...
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What affects where a terrain will be rocky or grassy?
I’m working on a terrain generator and I now need to color the terrain to be rock, grass, or snow. Ignoring snow for now, at first I thought I’d make flatter areas grass and make steeper areas rock. ...
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Why is there no American dry winter monsoon?
Some regions have monsoon conditions, a seasonal reversal of wind due to the heating and cooling of major land masses. This is true of east Asia in particular; according to https://science.jrank.org/...
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Does storm seasonality vary with latitude?
Anecdotally, where I live in northern Europe, the weather seems to be stormier in winter, and this seems to be backed up by hard data. For example, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
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How does the west coast of Japan have cliffs?
In Ireland, sea cliffs tend to be on the west coast, because it's exposed to waves coming across the full width of the Atlantic, and therefore gets a lot of erosion, whereas the east coast is only ...
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To Determine the Geographic center of a continent, is balance point the accepted method and is equivalent to finding the centroid?
This is not exactly a pure Earth Science question but I'm not sure GIS SE is a suitable place either.
"The Google" suggested I watch CBS Sunday Morning's The debate over the geographical ...
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Is it possible to detect Coriolis effect using a Wind Rose?
I once learned in high school that the area where I used to live experiences the Coriolis effects of the air movement above the city. I never paid attention to this before, but I recently heard about ...
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Where can I find a list of mountain chains on the Earth?
I want to make an app for smartphones that lists the mountain chains of the world.
Where can I find a list of all mountain chains that are presently outspread on the Earth?
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Can I regard the grayscale of a RGB color image as a panchromatic image?
Here I have a remote sensing dataset with many bands (e.g., blue, green, red, ...), and I use the blue, green and red bands to get a true color image. I want to know if I can get a panchromatic band ...
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What was the size of the Aral sea in year 1000 CE?
I understand that since the rise of the Soviet Union the Aral sea has dried up more and more due to irrigation from rivers diverting its water to other areas for the sake of agriculture.
But is it ...
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How to properly distinguish a transversal valley from a longitudinal valley?
I'm confused about how to distinguish the two. Prior to making this question. I've read the wikipedia entry on the subject but it mentions that for example a transverse valley makes 90 degrees with ...
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How do we know the Arctic is just ice?
If I look at an Earth's map, the Arctic/North Pole always appears just like water. Evidently this is actually covered by ice, with an area depending on the time of the year. If this area is bigger ...
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Other than tectonic activity, what can reshape a world's surface?
Take our world and look at its surface geography: we have continents and oceans, mountains ridges and canyons, and so on. To my knowledge, most of it has been shaped by tectonic activity (feel free to ...
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Why does the Prime Meridian line shift in Google Earth when panning?
I'm not asking about the history of the line, nor am I asking about the tectonic plates underneath. If you look at the gif below, you will see that when panning very close to the earth on Google Earth,...
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Terracing in Mahad
my first time here!
I was going down the rabbit hole after watching a video on YouTube that made me want to read about it on Wikipedia.
It led me to this Picture:
(View from Varandha Pass near Mahad ...
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