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The Black Hills in South Dakota offer unforgettable drives that showcase the area's natural splendor. These routes provide travelers with the opportunity to appreciate diverse landscapes, unique rock formations, and wildlife. The Black Hills invites adve
This early map of New York City created by Francis Maerschalck around 1755 clearly shows the African Burial Ground, identified as the “Negros Burial Ground,” just outside the town. No city maps surveyed after 1755 explicitly label the burial ground. Source: 1755 Maerschalck Plan of New Yo...
The terrain is mainly characterized by mountains, hills, terraces and plains, and the soil types are black soil, black calcium soil, meadow soil, and brown soil. The Jilin black soil area is the most important cereal production base in China due to its favorable geographic location, suitable ...
The terrain is mainly characterized by mountains, hills, terraces and plains, and the soil types are black soil, black calcium soil, meadow soil, and brown soil. The Jilin black soil area is the most important cereal production base in China due to its favorable geographic location, suitable ...
dwelling in totemistic tribes on hills whose summits it fortified elaborately, and whose slopes it cultivated on what is called the "terrace system", and having a primitive culture which ethnologists think to have much resembled that of the present hill-tribes of Southern India. 2 It held our...
4National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, USA; 5Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; 6Carmabi Foundation, Piscaderabaai z/n, Curac¸ao, Netherlands Antilles; 7Aquatic Microbiology, Institute...
Maps Showing Geology, Structure, and Geophysics of the Central Black Hills, South Dakota This 1:100,000-scale digital geologic map details the complex Early Proterozoic granitic rocks, Early Proterozoic supracrustal metamorphic rocks, and Archean crystalline basement of the Black Hills. The granitic ...
Simulated Redlining Map of Cincinnati based on 1930 Decennial Census Data The two sections of the city graded the worst were the West End/East Price Hill and Avondale/Walnut Hills (featured below). Both of these areas saw significant turmoil in the decades following redlining. First, the West...
The satellite image used for producing a land cover map, and the color infrared image which was used as reference data for training the computer were obtained from Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR); the soil map and several other data layers including roads, parcel, and zoning were ...