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Digital archives - Thomas M. Bown's Bighorn Basin maps: The suite of forty-four office master copies

Open-File Report 2001-306
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2001306

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Abstract

This CD-ROM is a digitally scanned suite of master 'locality' maps produced by Dr. Thomas M. Bown. The maps are archived in the US Geological Survey Field Records. The maps feature annual compilations of newly established fossil (nineteen 7.5 degree maps) of central basin data collections. This master suite of forty-four maps represents a considerably broader geographic range within the basin. Additionally, three field seasons of data were compiled into the master suite of maps after the final editing of the Professional Paper. These maps are the culmination of Dr. Bown's Bighorn Basin research as a vertebrate paleontologist for the USGS. Data include Yale, Wyoming, Duke, Michigan and USGS localities. Practical topographic features are also indicated, such as jeep=trail access, new reservoirs, rerouted roadbeds, measured sections, fossil reconnaissance evaluations (G=good, NG=no good and H=hideous), faults, palcosol stages, and occasionally 'camp' vernacular for locality names.

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McKinney, K.C., 2001, Digital Archives - Thomas M. Bown's Bighorn Basin Maps: The Suite of Forty-Four Office Master Copies (Version 1.0): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2001-306, Available on CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2001306.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Digital archives - Thomas M. Bown's Bighorn Basin maps: The suite of forty-four office master copies
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2001-306
ISBN 0607978317
DOI 10.3133/ofr2001306
Edition Version 1.0
Year Published 2001
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Contributing office(s) U.S. Geological Survey
Description 1 CD-ROM
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