"This Dynamic Planet" Map: Feedback Solicited on 3rd Edition in Progress

Details "This Dynamic Planet" Map: Feedback Solicited on 3rd Edition in Progress "This Dynamic Planet" Map: Feedback Solicited on 3rd Edition in Progress

Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufmed52a0013s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #ED52A-0013

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3040 Plate Tectonics (8150, 8155, 8157, 8158), 6605 Education, 7230 Seismicity And Seismotectonics, 8150 Plate Boundary: General (3040), 8400 Volcanology

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Cartography by Will R. Stettner (USGS-Reston) and Antonio Villaseñor (University of Utrecht) Earlier editions of this 1:30 million Mercator world map of volcanoes, earthquakes, impact craters, and plate tectonics were published in 1989 and 1994. About 100,000 copies have since found their way to classrooms and research labs. Today's vastly improved data sets, particularly land and seafloor topography, allow improvements in the third edition, to be published in 2003. All elements of the new double-sided edition will be digital, and we are also working towards an interactive version on the web. As before, the front of the map will include a perspective cross-section illustrating plate tectonic processes, and an interpretive inset map of both sharp and diffuse plate boundaries and hotspots. Additions to earlier editions include polar caps on the front (making it a complete world map, for the first time), and a variety of supplementary resources printed on the back. The map?s back will feature a 1:150 million geologic map of the world, plus timelines and a sequence of paleogeographic maps, giving temporal context to the "snapshot" of today's dynamics shown on the main map. It will also display progressively higher resolution graphics of selected examples of convergent, transform, and divergent plate boundaries, hotspot volcanoes, and impact craters. These features will, we hope, increase understanding of the main map, both for classroom work and individual study. To make the map as accurate and useful as possible, we solicit feedback from AGU meeting participants. Our poster will be a current draft of the 1x1.5 m map, plus a laptop version of the ArcView GIS version for zooming in on areas of particular interest. Please stop by and help us refine areas that you know better than we do. The collective knowledge of AGU participants offers the potential of further improvement of the new map, and we ask for your help in that effort.

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