Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Covid travel quiz

Amalfi Drive?

Amalfi. What's it all about?

Amalfi coast is correct,
but this time I'd like to get an answer what kind of futuristic building this is - or at least the village name

Ravellos Auditorium

Or more accurately the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium in Ravello

The Matterhorn Zermatt?

Robcol ..... more global and geological than geographical .... finding the event will likely lead to the location.

Perhaps "a bit obscure" should have been "a lot obscure"

K

Himalayas?

I dont know of any global outcrop climbing events and my Geography & Geology A levels havent helped!

Robcol ... not to do with climbing.

It's the K-T Boundary

Where the light rock is there were dinosaurs .... where the dark rock is, no dinosaurs ..... the thin dark line between them is the iridium and tektite rich debris layer from the asteroid strike that wiped them out ..... that layer is found all over the world but the significance of this particular place is that it is the outcrop in the Bottaccione Gorge near Gubbio in Italy where Alvarez and Alvarez (father/son, physicist/geologist) first identified it .... their work turned the 'asteroid extinction event" from one of many unsupported possible theories for the dinosaur's disappearance into the accepted theory it is now.

Revolutionary piece of geological theory and it happened right there .... being there is the geologists equivalent of sitting under Iaacc Newton's own apple tree! 🙂

K

Ps Gubbio is well worth a visit in its own right even if you're not into rocks ... great old quarter with interesting architecture, great bars and eating places.

Pps .. I did say it was obscure ... but hoped the clues and google might do the trick 🙂

This is the very correct answer!👍👍