Pine Point, Utah - 7.5 Minute Series Topo Map Grand Staircase-Escalante 762 full-color photographs

762 full-color photographs

cleavage) weathering processes and soils

The Megabreccia is the debris of Utah's largest catastrophic landslide deposit

Glacial geology of the northern Uinta Mountains

and numerous activity pages

Pine Point, Utah - 7.5 Minute Series Topo Map Grand Staircase-Escalante 762 full-color photographsThe distinctive characteristic of a topographic map is that the shape of the Earth's surface is shown by contour lines. Contours are imaginary lines that join points of equal elevation on the surface of the land above or below a reference surface, such as mean sea level. Contours make it possible to measure the height of mountains, depths of the ocean bottom, and steepness of slopes. A topographic map shows more than contours. The map also includes