Try placing the tile that closest resembles a wasteland in between 2 monuments in the formation shown in the journal :)
i figured out what it is and overall i feel like it would have been a better idea to have it be swamp and desert. Overall i feel like the game would be better without the discovery mechanic but at least all of them are easy to figure out. Im assuming the creator changed it because of it being difficult but i feel like this could have been fixed by having the recipe swapped 2 pyramids with a swamp in the middle