Troy Quadrangle Description The Troy Quadrangle is located between the latitudes 76°45’00’’ and 76°52’30’’, and the longitudes 41°45’00’’ and 41°52’30’’; which correspond to 6.43 miles in the east-west direction, and 8.58 miles in the north-south direction. This quadrangle shows a very inhomogeneous area, where high peaks and zones of low relief are found. To give a better description, the quadrangle has been divided into three zones: a very high zone with a deep slope, a medium height mountain range, and a crossing valley The very high zone with a deep slope is found in the south-west part of the quadrangle with UTM coordinates from 4623040 meters to 4629000 meters North, and 342760 meters to 349000 meters East. On the other hand, this zone
Marshak, S. (2009) Essentials of Geology, 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, ch. 11, p. 298-320.
“Okefenokee is the swamp archetypal, the swamp of legend of racial memory of Hollywood.” There are two passages written about the Okefenokee swamp. Passage one is just a statement of facts. The author is providing information that one would find in the encyclopedia. Passage two creates an image for the swamp. The author creates vivid details and express the author’s feelings. Both passages have information in their passages, but passage one does it in a very plain manner while passage two creates a poetic image about the swamp.
This is a report based on three days of observations and testing in the region known as the Peterborough drumlin field. It will address a variety of regional elements, such as climate, soil, vegetation, hydrology, geomorphology, and geology. A variety of sites located on the Canadian Shield, the zone of thick glacial deposits to the south, and the transition between them will be the focus of the report. It is supplemented with previous research on the region. September 8, 1999, day one of the field study involved an area of largely granite bedrock that is part of the Canadian Shield and is the most northern point of study (see Map 2). September 9, 1999, day two, involved three main areas of study: the Bridgenorth esker (Map 3), Mark S. Burnham Park (Map 4), and the Rice Lake drumlin (Map 6). These sites are in areas of thick glacial deposits. September 10, 1999, day three, involved studying the Warsaw Caves (see Map 5) as a transition zone between Precambrian Shield rock to the north and Paleozoic rock to the south. A general map of the entire study region is provided by Map 1.
Hess, D., McKnight, T. L., & Tasa, D. (2011). McKnight's physical geography (Custom ed. for California State University, Northridge ; 2nd Calif. ed.). New York: Learning Solutions.
Fleeger, Gary M., Bushnell, Kent O., and Watson, Donald W. “Moraine and McConnells Mill State Parks.” Pennsylvania Trail of Geology. 2003. Print. 29 April 2014.
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The sharp differences in elevation between the Badwater Basin and the surrounding mountains that include the highest point in the continental US (Mt. Whitney at 14,494 feet) stand as a representation of the regions violent tectonic past. The mountains themselves are considered fault block mountain ranges meaning that they were formed when blocks of rocks were squeezed through the Earth's crust along parallel faults or were loosened from the crust when it separated at a fault. In the valley, both of these methods not only were the cause of the current mountains formation less than four million years ago, but also are causing the mountains to be uplifted while the valley floor drops even further. This phenomenon is one of the reasons why the lowest and highest points in the continental...
On Saturday, April 25th, the class went on a field trip to different locations around the Blacksburg-Christiansburg area to view different land formations typical of the Virginia area. We visited a total of eight sites to include the Kentland Farms, VT airport, Blacksburg Golf Course, and several road side areas. The weather conditions that day were cloudy with intermittent showers making the ground very wet and reducing visibility across large landscapes for the majority of the day. This paper will serve a summary of each stop made and will tie all of the observations together into big picture concepts for the New River basin.
The play Fences introduces us to characters Troy Maxson, his wife Rose, their children Cory and Raynell, his son Lyons from a previous marriage, his brother Gabriel and his friend, Bono. All of these characters play an important part in Troy’s life. Throughout the play we see many facets of Troy’s life, daily struggles, interactions with others and histories that have shaped Troy into the man we meet. From beginning to end, we see the meaning behind the title, the many Fences, both real and emotional, that Troy has erected in his life. Fences contain deep, intercultural content that the reader/viewer see’s throughout the scenes as this play touches the different
Blakey, R. C. (1996). Geologic history of western us. Informally published manuscript, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ, Retrieved from http://www.jan.ucc.nau.edu
...ierra Nevada on west and Mojave Desert on east (Fig.X). The topography of the province is largely characterized by “abrupt changes in elevation,” causing a wide range of elevation values. These include the province’s highest point which lies east of Owens valley, at an elevation of 4,341 meters above sea level, and the lowest point in the United States located in the famous Death Valley basin, 86 meters below sea level (Harden, 130). Throughout the province, many range-front faults are found. Range-front faults are young faults that are formed along the edge of an uplifting mountain range. The fact that most of the range-front faults, found in the basin, are normal faults has led geologists to believe that the repeated vertical motion along the normal fault systems is the major cause of the characteristic basin’s topography. Some of these faults are active faults.
Stephen .G,Malcolm.W, Guy H,(2014), GEOL20001 The Geology of Southeast Australia, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, pg. 23-25
Pipkin, Bernard W.. Geology and the environment. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, 2011. Print.
6. In 2001 it was assumed that soil contamination at the site would be prevented from leaching into the Floridan Aquifer due to the assumed impenetrable nature of thick clay formations (Miocene clays) located between the soil contamination sources and the deeper Floridan Aquifer. Has this turned out to be true? No, this has not turned out to be true because significant levels of dissolved contaminants moved to the deeper zones of the intermediate Hawthorn Group formation and the Floridan Aquifer.