Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Lab 2 - Beverly Hills Topographic Map

1. Beverly Hills Quadrangle

2. Adjacent Quadrangles: Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, Inglewood

3. The quadrangle was first created in 1966

4. National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929

5. Scale 1:24,000

6.
a) 1,200 meters
b) 1.89 miles
c) 2.64 inches
d) 12.5 centimeters

7. The contour interval is 20 feet.

8.
a) Public Affairs
    34°04'30"N, -118°26'30"W
    (34.074, -118.44)


b) Santa Monica
    34°00'30"N, -118°30'30"W
    (34.0, -118.51)

c) Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir
    34°07'30"N, -118°24'30"W
    (34.13, -118.41)
    
9.
a) ~580 feet
b) ~140 feet
c) ~720 feet

10. UTM Zone 11

11. 3763000 northing
      361000 easting

12. 1,000,000 square meters

13. 



14. 14 degrees East

15. upstream/North

16.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Lab 1 - Three Maps

This map was retrieved from the site located at http://www.san-fernando-valley-ca-real-estate.com/San-Fernando-Valley-Map from the real estate site payed for by Prudential California Realty. The map shows the San Fernando Valley, one of the regions of the Los Angeles County. It presents the major freeways that run through the valley, including the I-405, the I-5, Highway 101, etc. It is interesting to see that major streets run parallel with the major freeways that run near them. The streets in the city of Pacoima run parallel to the I-5 while the streets in Canoga Park run North to South with respect to the 101 Highway.



This picture is taken from the USGS website at http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Places/volcanic_past_rocky_mountains.html. The map identifies the  Rocky Mountains that run from Washington all the way down to New Mexico. The map is easy to read because it is evident that it is a map of the United States and the the orange coloring is the mountain range. It is interesting because this map it gives us an insight as to how large of a mountain range the Rocky Mountains really are as they take up a big portion of the western U.S.


This image was taken from the site called Science Clarified at http://www.scienceclarified.com/landforms/images/ueol_03_img0122.jpg. It is a map of all the volcanoes around the world and the plate boundaries. It is interesting because there seems to be a relation between the plate boundaries and the volcanoes. The relation is that most volcanoes, and thus volcanic eruptions, seem to occur by the plate boundaries.