Geologic Mapping Future Needs (1988) / Chapter Skim
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4 Geoscience Map Needs
4 Geoscience Map Needs
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Although the form of the first two questions is not identical with respect to the specific information requested, they are similar enough to serve as a basis for comparing changes in current and future geoscience mapping needs within each province. Geographic information on map needs from question 12 is analyzed in terms of the number of "extremely important" responses.
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. CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES Current Needs In terms of current map needs, the 10 most important provinces, based on all "extremely important" responses to question 12 are, in decreasing order: Gulf Coastal Plain (E1)
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Basin Range-Rocky Mountains Foreland Province (B6) Gulf Coastal Plain (E1)
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Respondents involved primarily in resource exploration and scientific research indicated all future mapping needs to be in the Basin Range-Rocky Mountain provinces, except for the Gulf Coast province, which was ranked fifth by each group. Those involved chiefly in engineering ranked the southern three Appalachian provinces as most important, the only group showing significant interest in this area.
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Members of these three professional societies, unlike most of the others, indicate almost all their needs to be in the westernmost United States, where hazard and groundwater problems are major concerns that, in varying degrees, affect almost all land-use decisions. COMPARISON OF THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE Information from question 12 afforded a basis on which to rank both the importance of each province to the current work of the respondents and the importance that should be given each province for future geologic mapping.
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Consultants indicated slight increases for all Alaskan provinces, in marked contrast to a general decrease for future needs in the conterminous United States. Federally employed respondents indicated a significant increase in the need for geologic maps in Alaska, and industry respondents ranked Alaska second only to the
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Geophysicists, engaged in work largely related to the petroleum industry, indicated future increases to be higher than Alaska only in the Western Cordillera and Basin Range-Rocky Mountain provinces. Geologists engaged in mineral-deposits-related geology indicated moderate Alaskan geologic map needs at present, and showed no significant increase necessary in the future.
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Geophysicists engaged in work largely related to the petroleum industry indicated a moderately low level of importance, with little future increases, except for the Atlantic Ocean provinces, in which fairly large future increases would be needed. Academic stratigraphers and paleontologists indicated a moderately high level of importance placed on offshore areas, but with little future increase except in the Chukchi-Beaufort Seas (Kid.
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Respondents engaged in resource planning, for example, expressed relatively great need for the very large scale maps in the Appalachians east to the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Responses from those engaged in resource exploration work emphasized the need for 1:24,000 to 1:62,500 scale maps in the Basin Range-Rocky Mountains, and scales greater than 1:24,000 in the Southern Great Plains and the Gulf Coast.
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