50 years of Channel Change: Bill Williams River, Arizona

The big picture. Previous posts were snippets from this series of maps. Final poster here is 78 by 54 inches. Learned how to edit registry to allow for larger metafile allocation in order to save this monster as decent resolution pdf and then to print. Yes. When I get desperate, I edit the freaking registry.

Flood bouders, Paulina Creek, Oregon

I was skeptical about the interpretive sign's assertion about a big
late Holocene flood until....

State of the Bill Williams River map, March 25, 2010

One day, yes one day soon, I will prove that I can make this evil plexus of lines make sense. For the time being, it remains the struggle that it looks like from here.

State of the Reno / Truckee River map (a small part of it), March 25, 2010

This effort is a compilation / map improvement process. I have been tasked with correlating and refining the Quaternary units in the Truckee Meadows...the large floodplain where most of Reno sits. This process is being enhanced considerably with georectified aerial photos from 1939. And to think, many folks wondered why the airport flooded in the 1997 flood.

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