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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2012 - 10:17pm PT
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Thanks, Mark!
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Sep 26, 2012 - 07:30pm PT
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The first draft is done!
If it INTRIGUES you, go to Greg Stock's presentation at Facelift tomorrow night to find out more.
If it INSPIRES you to help out (there is A LOT of fine tuning left to do) send me a message! rputnam@live.unc.edu
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Sep 26, 2012 - 07:46pm PT
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The map is VERY detailed:
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Sep 26, 2012 - 08:58pm PT
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awesome.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Sep 26, 2012 - 09:26pm PT
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Wow!!
That is incredibly detailed work you got goin' there..
Hoping for the best, and wish I had the equipment and could assist in this endeavor.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jun 12, 2013 - 10:33pm PT
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Superb.
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Jun 13, 2013 - 04:04pm PT
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Amazing work. Incredible combination of climbing talent, photography talent, and programming talent from various sources to make it all possible. Well done!
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Dr. Christ
Mountain climber
State of Mine
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Jun 13, 2013 - 04:40pm PT
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EXCELLENT!
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gstock
climber
Yosemite Valley
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Jun 13, 2013 - 05:48pm PT
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I've posted this before, but here is a quick video showing the resolution of the terrestrial LiDAR (laser scanning) data for El Capitan. The different rock types (granite, diorite, aplite dikes) are clearly visible due to their differing reflectivities.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jun 14, 2013 - 01:29am PT
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Bump for a great project!
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Jun 14, 2013 - 01:33am PT
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Love that video!
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RP3
Big Wall climber
Twain Harte
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Time to reactivate this beautiful thread.
After many years of work by myself, Bryan Law (Minerals), Greg Stock (gstock) and Allen Glazner (no avatar on ST, but an occasional lurker), the geologic map of El Capitan is finally completed! It made it through peer review and has been published by the Geological Society of America's Maps and Charts Series. Check out the first high-resolution map ever made of a km deep section of a pluton.
Below is a low-rez image of the map (which, in reality, is a 38"x34" poster.) Unfortunately, it is somewhat expensive for non-GSA members, so get in touch with your geologist friends, and have them pick you up a truly one-of-a-kind map at a member discount!
All hail El Capitan geology:
Thanks to the many organizations (National Geographic Waitt Society, GSA, AAC, NPS, UNC-Chapel Hill, Patagonia, Metolius, Bluewater, Maptek, xRez Studios) and climbers who have helped with this effort over the years.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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The rockhounds rule. Crazy map of the vertical.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released into general population, Idaho
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For the win! It's a climbing geologists dream come true. Proud.
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Hudhopper
climber
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Jan 15, 2015 - 11:37am PT
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Not sure how many remember this, but the publisher is offering $15 off in honor of Caldwell and Jorgeson's climb. The map is now only $19. From their Facebook page:
GSA would like to honor Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson's incredible ascent of El Capitan's Dawn Wall by offering $15 off our map, Geologic Map of the Southeast Face of El Capitan. This unique, vertically oriented, decimeter-resolution geologic map was accomplished by remote sensing using terrestrial LiDAR and gigapixel photography and was ground-truthed by climbing and rappelling. Visit the GSA Store (http://bit.ly/1u9H0Mr); and enter coupon code PITCH15 at checkout. #DawnWall
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oldgeologist
Mountain climber
Elyria, Ohio
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Jul 21, 2015 - 09:18am PT
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Wonderful project.
Sometime around 1956 Art Smith hiked around the rim of Yosemite and collected samples, which he sliced up and put under the petrographic microscope. They were classified, and the project was turned in to Howell Williams (petrographers will know who he was) at the University of California as a master's thesis in geology. He didn't pursue it any more, as he worked for the Bureau of Land Management, retiring out of Kingman, Arizona. I wonder if he caught any of these different formations.
By the way, my favorite portrait is me standing next to El Cap Tree. I still don't know how they got the first bolts into the overhanging wall on the rappel.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Jul 21, 2015 - 10:18am PT
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this is a great reminder to me that Minerals is one of the most incredible humans I've been privileged to know, and what an honor it has been to to spend time in the mountains and elsewhere in his presence. I can't count the times I've jugged up to a belay raving about the 'beautiful granite.' only to have Bryan, in his quiet way, say "uh, actually......"
I could probably go for a geology degree if I could remember even 10% of the knowledge he has shared over the years.
Right on.
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