Daily Field Notes #159

"A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected." ~ Reif Larsen

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Geography: INTRODUCTION TO CARTOGRAPHY - ISARITHMIC MAPPING

Original post by Hive account@lordneroo

Hello everyone How is everything going? Hope you're a having a great time during these summer days. Time to relax and enjoy the simple things in life; our friends and families. I am privileged to live by the sea, so I have been taking advantage of this lately. Everything is great and I felt refreshed, so I thought it's time to share another part of this series with you. But I'm always in a rush, so I don't mean to waste your time. Let's do this As promised in a previous regarding the techniques and methods followed in order to represent the statistical surface with the utilization of linear symbols, this is the twentieth part of this Introduction to Cartography Series. A milestone I nev...

Geology: Bizzare Phenomenon: Darvaza Gas Crater; spawned by natural gas.

Original post by Hive account@synick

Journey through the globe to a very small and lowly populated village Darweze located In the middle of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan, a place recorded to have two characteristic large openings in the ground. One called the Turquoise Lake Crater and the other the Darvaza gas crater AKA Door to hell, each having two opposite elements, Water and Fire respectively.
Many classify the gas crater as weird, bizarre, wondrous because it is like a large bowl constantly emitting burning flames in the ground and the fact that seeing such large hole glowing in the dark is unbelievable, is acknowledged. Nevertheless, it isn't completely outlandish because al...

Archeology: Have You Ever Wanted To Help Out On A Shipwreck Excavation? Now You Can?

Original post by Hive account@liquidtravel

The Southwest Underwater Archaeological Society An Archaeologist’s Perspective picture by A Hall> Introduction One of the least understood historic preservation resources nationally consists of the shipwrecks that litter the floor of our nation’s offshore waters, harbors, estuaries, rivers, and lakes. The status of our knowledge of Texas’ shipwrecks is not an exception to this rule, although important steps toward a better understanding of these resources have come forward over the past few years. With over two thousand shipwrecks in the waters of Texas, it is impossible to evaluate them all. For one reason or another, the wrecks that might qualify for the National Register of Historic pl...

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