Geologic History of the Pacific NW GeoMap - Side 1
Originally created as a museum exhibit for a general audience, many users - including geology professors - have called this map the best visual display of Pacific NW geology that currently exists. Used widely in classrooms (about 5th grade through college), it is also a popular museum/nature center gift shop/bookstore item.
In a geologic heartbeat, cataclysmic floods containing ten times the flow of all the world’s rivers thundered across the Pacific Northwest and changample of how major scientific theories have been challenged - and changed, with the emergence of new and compelling evidence - and how scientists are often not in agreement in their interpretations of that evidence.
By popular request, digital images of the GeoMap are available. These images have been prepared from the original digital art files, so no quality has been lost by scanning.
Pacific NW GeoMap CD
*The CD contains 32 images that include full images of both sides of the GeoMap; along with an assortment of enlarged GeoMap details at various magnifications, to use depending on the focus of your presentation.
Many images have both labeled and unlabeled versions, so you may annotate as desired. One teacher who stopped by at the NSTA exhibit in Seattle said he prepared a PowerPoint assessment for his kids, where he would arrange each slide with a blank slide to follow, where each student then had to write two sentences to explain what was happening.
The location of this earthquake is very near the location of the 1949 magnitude 7.1 earthquake. The February 28, 2001 event occurred on a normal fault within the down-going Juan de Fuca plate. The earthquake name "Nisqually" is derived from a prominent delta in South Puget Sound. The area northeast of the delta (along Puget Sound) is known as Nisqually Landing. The delta is protected as part of the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. (Text by USGS)
