Big Triangle, Utah - 7.5 Minute Series Topo Map Salt Lake City Wasatch Front developed for the Federal Emergency

developed for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by the National Institute of Building Sciences (1999)

survive in the wilderness

Lemesurier Island

We mapped twenty separate landslides scattered throughout Timber Lakes based on field observations and aerial photograph and topographic map interpretation

) six regional cross sections

Big Triangle, Utah - 7.5 Minute Series Topo Map Salt Lake City Wasatch Front developed for the Federal EmergencyThe 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