A geological map or geologic map is a special-purpose map made to show various geological features. Rock units or geologic strata are shown by color or...
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Engineering geology is the application of geological principles to engineering practice for the purpose of assuring that the geological factors affecting...
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use. Geological maps show not only the surface, but characteristics of the underlying rock, fault lines, and subsurface structures. Choropleth maps use...
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Cadastral map Climatic map Geological map Historical map Linguistic map Nautical map Physical map Political map Relief map Resource map Road map Star map Street...
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Geological mapping of Georgia is the creation of geological maps—special-purpose maps made to show geological features—of the State of Georgia in the...
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The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological...
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Bedrock (redirect from Subsurface (geology))
– the drift-thickness map of Ohio" (PDF). Ohio Geology. No. 1. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey. pp. 1, 3–5. Archived...
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A geological survey is the systematic investigation of the geology beneath a given piece of ground for the purpose of creating a geological map or model...
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Map that Changed the World is a 2001 book by Simon Winchester about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map...
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the...
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geophysical and geological observations made on and below the Earth surface. A geomodel is the numerical equivalent of a three-dimensional geological map complemented...
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gravitational field strength, to present data in analogous formats to a geological map. Gravity maps, in a "heat" context, typically represent intensity being representative...
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world's first geological map (a map of the United States by William Maclure was published six years earlier), Smith's was the first geological map covering...
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Digital geological mapping is the process by which geological features are observed, analyzed, and recorded in the field and displayed in real-time on...
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William Maclure (section Geological map)
of 34 to pursue his scientific, geological and other interests. In 1809 he made the earliest attempt at a geological map of the United States of America...
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a map of the surrounding region. Cross sections are made by interpreting and extrapolating a broad range of information about a region's geological characteristics...
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The Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW or CCGM in French) is an international association in the field of geology. Its main role is the...
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Society in a memoir entitled Observations on the Geology of the United States explanatory of a Geological Map, and published in the Society's Transactions...
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term areology is also used by the Areological Society. Figure 2 for the geologic map of Mars Mars is a terrestrial planet, which has undergone the process...
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The Map Book, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, ISBN 0-297-84372-9, pp. 232, 250. "Organizing the U.S. Geological Survey". The United States Geological Survey:...
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1992a, "The world's oldest surviving geological map – the 1150 BC Turin papyrus from Egypt", Journal of Geology 100 (1992), pp.3–18. Harrell, J.A. and...
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other regions. Geological maps showing where various formations are exposed at the surface are fundamental to such fields as structural geology, allowing geologists...
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surfaces. Some well-known examples of these maps have been produced by the USGS, such as the latest geological map of Mars, but many others are published in...
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where the fault can be seen or mapped on the surface. A fault trace is also the line commonly plotted on geological maps to represent a fault. A fault...
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BC). Some of the first geological thoughts were about the origin of the Earth. Ancient Greece developed some primary geological concepts concerning the...
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Strike and dip (redirect from Strike (geology))
and document a structure's characteristics for study or for use on a geological map. A feature's orientation can also be represented by dip and dip direction...
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A thematic map is a type of map that portrays the geographic pattern of a particular subject matter (theme) in a geographic area. This usually involves...
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Isopach maps are utilized in hydrographic survey, stratigraphy, sedimentology, structural geology, petroleum geology and volcanology. An isopach map is similar...
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André Dumont (geologist) (category Geology of Europe)
establish the regional-scale geological correlation between the various countries of Europe. After his death, his geological map was updated by Gustave Dewalque...
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[Continuous Geological Map of Spain] https://hub.arcgis.com/maps/IGME::mapa-geol%C3%B3gico-continuo-de-espa%C3%B1a-a-escala-1-50-000-continuous-geological-map...
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