April 19, 2010

Urban Environmental Geographies continued...

NEVADA (and all of the Basin and Range physiographic province)

Homework returned... FIELD TRIP feedback... GRADED ON THE CURVE... turn it in... important for the exam

FINAL exam will be a comparison... a place from the field trip and a place from USGS Water Supply Paper 2242... So.. you can do great on the field trip one, and then "be dangerous" as you compare it to a different place.

Office hours AND BY APPOINTMENT.. email me... I'll be here all next week but am going away for the weekend, getting back on Tuesday May 4 and the exam is Wednesday May 5... so... don't put off coming and seeing me.

USGS Water Supply Paper 2242 is on reserve at Marriott (2 hr reserve); LINK to pdf on web; and LINK to pdf on course web site.

USGS Basic Ground-Water Hydrology, Water Supply Paper 2220, LINK to USGS website.

USGS Ground-Water Atlas of the United States, LINK to USGS website

Review -- Wasatch Front; Alta; Moab; Florida; and today... Nevada. ... about as different from Florida as possible.

Continentality... United States LINK to a summary figure USGS ws-2242

ASSIGNMENT (format is changed a little)

To add the contours of USGS to Google Earth... download the app from: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002970.php

To make an elevation profile using Google Maps Go to http://www.heywhatsthat.com/profiler.html

BREATHE DEEPLY

 

FIRST... look the place over... case it out... Google Earth, Fly to Yucca Mountain

NEXT... figure out the elevation differences... the lay of the land... the topography... With the nifty profiler... generate the profile with the computer... sketch the profile onto page 2.

NEXT... figure out the hydrologic setting. Think as you figure it out.

Hydrologic setting... Go to USGS Water Suppy Paper 2242 (Ground-Water Regions of the United States) LINK . Look up Nevada (back page map). Go to that section. Note how the text "answers" most of the questions of your assignment. How lovely. Control your enthusiasm and understand the figures. Of course there are other ways to do this and other resources, example LINK .

FIGURE 17 USGS wsp-2242 -- course link

FIGURE 18 USGS wsp-2242 -- course link

 

BIG SCIENCE CONCEPT NUMBER 3... Water cycle (Tess... run us through the components ... everyone estimate lots, average little)

BIG SCIENCE CONCEPT NUMBER 4... Budgets... Change in storage equals change in what comes in and what goes out (deficit or surplus)

BIG SCIENCE CONCEPT NUMBER 5... Effects of Earth systems processes are cumulative.

 

DISCUSSION: Where does Las Vegas want to get water from... from what general settings of your diagram... discuss

And... where would the US Dept of Energy suggest that high level nuclear waste be stored... in what general settings of your diagram... discuss.

TEAMS of two... draw the profile of TOOELE VALLEY on the white boards... from Main Street Salt Lake City to Main Street Grantsville UT

What does Park City loook like... Rocky Mountain regions LINK

So different...

 

 

 

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