Maptasmagoria
A friend alerted me to this cool blog that showcases weird maps. You gotta check it out. As a geological incentive to visit, here's one of the Mississippi River's shifting meanders through time:
If you don't have time to sift through all of them, a "best of" list of 21 maps is compiled here.
If you don't have time to sift through all of them, a "best of" list of 21 maps is compiled here.
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As someone who works on fluvial geomorphology/sedimentology my first thought on this map was "how cool", rather than "how weird".
It is an amazing figure! Ol' Fisk put some work into that one, lemme tell you.
You can get all of Fisk 1944 (both the text as well as ALL the plates) at the Lower Miss. Valley Engineering Geology website. There is a link to their page at my blog, but I'll make it easier on everyone and just give you guys the URL.
http://lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil/index.htm
Oh so cool. Thanks Eric. I had no idea these were available online.
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