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Exercise 6A: Making a Geologic Map of SP Crater -- Your instructor will demonstrate how you would make a geologic map of SP Crater, north of Flagstaff in northern Arizona. The image and QTVR movie below will let you see the area in detail for yourself. You do not have to do anything with these.

	Aerial view (looking straight down) of a satellite image of the SP Crater area. This is the same image your instructor used in class.
	QuickTime VR movie of satellite image draped over topography for a slightly larger area than shown in the image above. The file is large (7 Mb), so give it time to load.

Exercise 6B: Mapping the Geology of Painted Canyon -- To construct a geologic map of Painted Canyon and reconstruct the geologic history, use the resources listed below. Especially useful in starting the geologic map will be the first three images, which label key places to begin drawing the boundaries (contacts) between different rock units. Then, view the overviews (especially those with bumps removed) and panoramas to extend your contacts away from the key places. Save the aerial photograph for last, but be sure to view it too.

	Geologic Map Hint 1: Labeled overview with smoothed topography, looking north.
	Geologic Map Hint 2: Labeled overview with smoothed topography, looking east.
	Geologic Map Hint 3: Labeled overview with smoothed topography, looking west.
	Overviews
	Overviews with Smoothed Topography
	Views of the corners and other hard-to-see places
	Panoramas
	Aerial Photographs
	Aerial Photograph - Contour Map Comparison
Exercise 6C: Showing the Rock Units Beneath the Surface -- To help visualize the geometry and thickness of rock units beneath the surface, check out these cross sections.
	Cross Section 1, looking to the west
	Cross section 2, looking down and toward the northeast