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ASTER Saline Valley
A C
Inyo Mts.
A. SWIR 4 (1.65 µm), 6 (2.205 µm), and 8 (2.23
µm) as RGB 30m
Eureka Range
C. 13 (10.6 µm), 12 (9.1 µm) 10 (8.3 µm) RGB 90m
B. band3 (0.81 µm), 2 (0.76 µm), 1 (0.61 µm)
(RGB)15m
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Utah state geologic map
Paleozoic limestones shales Triassic sandy
shales Jurassic to Cretaceous shales
sedimentary rocks Cretaceous shales Mesaverde
sandstones
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Geologic Folding Observed at Regional Scales
SIR-A image, Hamersley Range, nw Australia
Zagros Mts. sw coast Iran (Persian Gulf).
closed anticline (up) syncline (down) structures

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Faults and Joints1) Layers of different
types and ages of rock units sit side-by-side 2)
Abrupt topographic discontinuities of
landforms 3) Depressions along the fault trace
(broken rock is more easily eroded) 4) Scarps or
cliffs 5) Sudden shifts of drainage courses.
basalt flow in Zambia, Zambesi River (Victoria
Falls)
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Kuruk Tagh fault (E-W), Tian Shan Mts. West.
China
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SRTM San Andreas Fault
aerial photomosaic
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Canadian Shield
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Rift in Kenya (Lake Hannington at top) SPOT
Geologic map of rock units and fractures
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Wind River MTs.
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Lineaments, Canadian Shield
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Landsat MSS Scene of Utah and Northern Arizona
Colorado River
A band of folded rocks comprise Comb Ridge. In
the upper left is the monoclinal fold (a black
flightline crosses), known as the Waterpocket
Fold.
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Wingate Formation 45 dip
Navajo Sandstone (typical of Zion National Park)

Tarantula Mesa younger rocks of Mesaverde
Sandstone
Photos of the Waterford Fold
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Hopi Buttes Eroded volcanic necks and diatreme
fills eroded volcanic necks and diatreme fills
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Younger rocks lie above older ones
(stratographic Superpostion) B Ridges
(hogbacks) formed byrocks resistant to erosion Y
has been removed above A B but is still present
below C
Waterpocket Fold Is a monocline
Anticline
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Thematic Mapper, Band 2
Waterpocket Fold lies within the Capitol Reef
National Park in south-central Utah, 35 miles
south of Caineville on Highway 24.
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TM Bands 1, 2 7, 6
Waterpocket Fold
What is Similar/ Different?
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24 band Bendix Imager at 5m (1976) 7 VNIR
bands Used to create 6 PCA Composite of PCA 1-3
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PCA of MSS Aug. 1972 image (RGB PCA 3, 2, 1)
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Geologic units TM Composites 1, 2,
3 Composite 2, 3, 4 PCA 1, 2, 3 RGB
Aug. 1984
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• Hybrid TM
• B6r, 3/2g,
• 4/5b
• B. PCA 7band
• composite

C.TM winter 1985 D. RGB (7, 5, 4 MSS Landsat
1), August 6, 1972
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ERTS 1 (Landsat 1), 3 days after launch
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Low and High Spatial Resolution AVIRIS data for
Mineral Mapping
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