This year's field camp map area
Not simple. A couple thousand feet of relief and a bunch of landforms and processes the students are unlikely to have ever seen (if history is any guide).
Not simple. A couple thousand feet of relief and a bunch of landforms and processes the students are unlikely to have ever seen (if history is any guide).
For various reasons, I have dropped the Clark County mega-mega map for a day to work on the very nearly complete Owyhee River area map. In real life, this map is 40 inches by 40 inches at 1:36,000. Although I have compiled the mapping in the river corridor down to about 1:4500 in most places. Heading out to teach field camp there in a couple of days. Learned some handy new tricks in ArcGIS that really have improved map data management and symbolization. Will share them when my cloning experiment is successful.
This reach of the river (looking downstream, btw) provides THE perspective on the role of lava flows in displacing the river and instigating massive slope failure.
I have spent many hours (while on family medical leave, no less) doing
the penultimate pass through the Owyhee map. Not only through the
detailed section but also out into the larger region from which the
lava flows originated.
Here is a map for the research group to review. This includes several sites mentioned in the paleomag update recently posted on Yeehow Central. Review it for naming conventions, placement, etc. Note also the addition of Danner Butte...an informal name for a likely vent associated with a youngish flow. Previously the lava related to that vent was grouped with that from Rocky/Lava Butte, but this was not feasible as it required a lot of lava to flow a long way uphill. The boundary between the two is not shown on this map, but I am working on it (Note: N. Bondre identified this vent as SH, but I have forgotten why...looking into that too).
Believe it or not, this one is almost done. I have posted proof of that before. What remains is the correct attribution of all of the lines that you see in red. I am systematically going through the map and fixing all of these. I started at the east end. Don't ask why so many lines are unattributed...long story.
