Episode 107 - "How many will ever make a map?" Field Skills

How many students will ever make a professional geologic map? Not many most likely. Is it still essential to learn? You bet! This week we discuss why and how it’s done.

Field Methods

• Episode 32
• Pocket Transit Manual
• Strike and Dip (YouTube)
• Interactive Grand Canyon Map
• PDF Grand Canyon Map
• Little Baldy

Fun Paper Friday

• Slime molds predict best transportation routes? Internet comments misinterpret a paper and use sensational headlines? Find out with this week’s fun paper!
• Tsompanas, Michail-Antisthenis I., Georgios Ch Sirakoulis, and Andrew I. Adamatzky. “Evolving transport networks with cellular automata models inspired by slime mould.” IEEE transactions on cybernetics 45.9 (2015): 1887–1899.
• Gizmodo Article

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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin