2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM

Paper No. 3
Presentation Time: 8:00 AM-6:00 PM

A Collaborative Effort to Create Interactive Utah Geologic Maps


LOVE, April M., Science & Engineering Division, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, 295 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860, MORRISON, David L., Government Documents Division, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, 295 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860, ROCKWELL, Kenneth W., Cataloging Division, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, 295 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860 and BITTON, Ronald M., Western Americana, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, 295 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860, april.love@utah.edu

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Committee at the J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah is working in collaboration with the Geologic Mapping Program of the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) and the Marriott Library's Institutional Repository to generate a web-based interactive geologic map using CONTENTdm. The University's Department of Geology and Geophysics thesis maps will be scanned, so as to provide both preservation and access to a difficult-to-access resource. These geologic maps will be retrievable via a mouse click on a State of Utah web-map.