T179 Geoscience Apps on the Web and in Your Hand (Posters)

Tuesday, 6 November 2018
9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Halls J-K

TEACHING GEOSCIENCE TO THE TRAVELER FOR 120+ YEARS: SACRAMENTO TO RENO

Paper number: T179-5
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM

Authors

Abstract

Google Earth overlays and Google MyMaps markers are among the resources used in a comparison of more than 120 years of geoscience publications for the traveler in California, as listed in the table below. The route between Sacramento and Reno was chosen as a focus, both for the large number of publications for a general audience, and for California’s pivotal role in the progress of geoscience. Lessons are drawn both from the works’ diverse styles of presentation, and their varied approaches to the moving target of evolving geoscience concepts. The overlays and markers can be downloaded or accessed from http://georgiarocks.us/spots/usca.

Year(s)

Title

1st author

Notes

1878, 1890

An American Geological Railway Guide

MacFarlane

Table only, listing rock types by station

1915

Guidebook of the Western US, Part B [USGS railway series]

Lee

Major units, faulting, glaciation, and their timing, in mile-by-mile form, with fold-out geologic maps

1968

AAPG Geological Highway Map

AAPG

Compilation map with interstate routes readable, with cross sections and supplemental maps

1975

Roadside Geology of U. S. Interstate 80...

Hamblin

Mile-by-mile of outcrops, no geologic history

1975, 1996, 2006

Geology of the Sierra Nevada

Hill

Geologic history well-organized by chapters, featured sites not necessarily on roadways

1975, 2000, 2016

Roadside Geology of Northern (& Central) California

Alt

First plate tectonics for public (1975, especially subduction/ accretion), tagged geologic maps

1993, 1998

Annals of the Former World

McPhee

Celebrated author shadows one authority (Moores), emphasis on ophiolites and terranes

2002

Geologic Trips: Sierra Nevada

Konigsmark

Gold, granite, uplift, volcanism, and glaciation are well-introduced; great graphics, location vignettes

2011

Rough-Hewn Land

Meldahl

Geologist with literary talent weaves history and geography with new geoscience, e.g. Nevadaplano

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM-320157

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