This page has some images and files that students may find helpful for their Atlas for a Utah School Project.

Source for additional maps about Utah: http://geology.com/state-map/utah.shtml

For ATLAS CHAPTER 01 - LOCATION. Downloads ...

AtlasCh02-LANDMARKS -Downloads ... or... Ch02-MightWorkForYouDownloads

 

Files about INTERACTIONS - CONNECTIONS -Downloads

 

Files about GEOSPHERE RIDD-Landforms Map of Utah ; STERNER-DEM-ReliefMapUtah ; and... highly recommended, go to the Learning module on Counties and include one of those amazing images from Bowen

Ch04-an image from your county's website of some spectacular scenery (give credit for photo). Physiographic provinces are based on LANDFORMS... so think landforms. scenery and resources -- . UTAH RESOURCES

Energy; Coal; Gas; Oil; Oil shale; Geothermal; Metals; Phosphates; Potash and Evaporites; Uranium;

 

Files about Water, Utah's HYDROSPHERE. Required: Map of the regions of Utah based on the hydrosphere - surface water drainage LINK Attribution: Atlas of Utah, 1981, by Weber State College:

Required: Some info from the water plan specific to your comunity / county ... How to find which water plan to use? Here's the LINK to the Utah water plan MAP (and, optional, LINK to the plan, http://www.water.utah.gov/waterplan/SWP_pff.pdf From there, look up the regions and then... here's the LINK to the individual water plans: http://www.water.utah.gov/planning/waterplans.asp

 

Files about Weather, climate and the Atmosphere subsystem of Earth systems -- past, present, future

download:Attribution: Atlas of Utah, 1986, Weber State College, p.55. Or equivalent.

 

FOR SECTION 001 only... not section 090-- Yes, this will be confusing, but it's meant to be helpful. For GEOG3600-Section001... watch for the announcement of what day we'll walk it out... very weather dependent OR you can join the Saturday Feb 7 walk. For GEOG3600-Section090, the walking field trip is scheduled 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM northwest corner of campus... so by noon back to OSH. Please be to the parking lot of OSH by 9:15 AM. Here's information for you. DOWNLOAD, read, print, and sign the waiver and bring it for the trip WAIVER. Also a LINK to y2011 handout. No need to print it out, I will bring hardcopy for you. If you have colored pencils, it helps to have 3 colors... but I will have extra pencils for you. Please review LM07, 08, 09. Wear sensible clothing, 'specially good walking shoes. We'll walk the trip rain or shine, because I know you need certainty on when the trip will be run. Safety first! If you think you'll be on the walk, I'd appreciate your emailing me. It's not a commitment, it helps me plan.

IF you want some of the images from the Hazards Excursion Handout - here they are: LINK to:Google Earth image of our route and fault trend; LINK to image of Fault Line Park block with squares to color; LINK to topo map showing relief across fault scarp; LINK to map of fault from USGS publication Personius;

Files that may be helpful for UTAH's biosphere... and associated, probable, impacts on Utah's early peoples. JPG FORMAT SEEMS TO WORK BEST: EPA-ECOREGIONS Level IIII; and in pdf format, that may be too big: EPA - ECOREGIONS Level IIII pdf format ;

OPTIONAL BUT HELPFUL TO YOU... Key to map EPA Ecoregions level IIII chart; Optional EPA - ECOREGIONS Level III on Sterner base.

Helpful Download vis a vis Utah's Early Peoples-- Atlas of Utah (1981-WeberStateCollege) p75-AgriculturalIndianCultures. ... in your ____ atlas

 

This site is for course content and some downloads for the Atlas project

Go to Canvas for course logistics, modules, quizzes, assignments, and other other files.

{This page modified Spring 2015- Modifications will continue as this is a work in progress.}