Thursday, October 11, 2012

Lab 2

Lab 2: USGS Topographic Maps

1.) Name of Quadrangle: Beverly Hill Quadrangle

2.) Adjacent Quadrangles: Canoga Park Quadrangle, Van Nuys Quadrangle, Burbank Quadrangle, Topanga Quadrangle, Hollywood Quadrangle, Venice Quadrangle, Inglewood Quadrangle

3.) Date Created:  1995

4.) Datum Used: North American Datum of 1927 and North American Datum of 1983

5.) Map Scale: 1:24 000

6.) (a) 1cm = 240 meters on ground so 5cm = 240cm x 5 = 1200 meters on the ground.
     (b) 1in =0.379 miles on the ground so 5in = 0.379 x 5 = 1.895 miles on the ground.
     (c) 63,360 inches in a mile so 63,360 in/24000= 2.64 inches on the map.
     (d) 3km = 300,000 cm so 300,000cm/24000 = 12.5 cm on the map.

7.)  Contour Interval: 20 feet


8.) Geographic Coordinates

      (a) The Public Affairs Building: Lat 34° 4' 15" (34.070833), Long 118° 26' 40" (118.444444)
      (b) The Tip of Santa Monica Pier: Lat 34° 0' 45" (24.0125), Long 118° 30' (118.5)
      (c) The Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir: Lat 34°  7' 15" (34.120833), Long 118° 23' 5"  (118.384722)      

9.) Elevations
    (a) Greystone Mansion: 540 feet, 164.592 meters
    (b) Woodlawn Cemetery: 40 feet, 12.192 meters
    (c) Crestwood Hills Park: 650 feet, 198.12 meters

10.) UTM Zone: Zone 11

11.) UTM Coordinates for lower left corner of map: 3763000m N and 362000m E

12.) Square meters within each cell of UTM gridlines: 1,000,000 meters

13.) Elevation Profile: Points on UCLA campus highlighted in green and yellow colors


   
           
14.) Magnetic Declination of Map: 14° east

15.) Direction of Water Flow between 405 and Stone Canyon Reservoir: North to South


16.) UCLA graphic on Beverly Hill Quadrangle Map:



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