Pegram Creek, Idaho - 7.5 Minute Series Topo Map DVD

Pegram Creek, Idaho - 7.5 Minute Series Topo Map DVDThe 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

and long winding drives through the mountains

readers will be provided with old-time favorites and new treasures

More than 200 illustrations complement the step-by-step explanations of the more than 300-million-year evolution of this convoluted landscape

Contributors include Lance Larson

Discovery of the Barneys Canyon and Melco Gold Deposits

AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE MERCUR MINING DISTRICT

Other features found on this map include: Amargosa Desert

where and how to go looking

and understand the stratigraphy of archaeological sites

Sol Duc River

East Mountain field encompasses the Flat canyon/Indian Creek trend

involving both archaeological excavations and the recovery of strictly paleoecological materials