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REGISTRATION and FULL DETAILS: June Issue GSA Today Vol. 5, No. 4 April 1995 1995 ANNUAL GSA TODAY MEETING A Publication of the Geological Society of America • CALL FOR PAPERS Page 75 • Registration Issue June GSA Today DDM-SVF: A Prototype Dynamic Digital Map of the Springerville Volcanic Field, Arizona Christopher D. Condit, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 ABSTRACT DDM-SVF is a Macintosh with 8 mega- bytes of random access memory, an Dynamic Digital Map–Springer- eight-bit (256) color 13 inch monitor, a ville Volcanic Field (DDM-SVF) is a hard disk, and/or a CD-ROM reader. If a stand-alone “presentation-manager” color printer is available, most figures program that contains and displays and all maps can be printed in color. four thematic geologic maps of the Springerville volcanic field, Arizona, ATTRIBUTES OF DDM-SVF on the Macintosh computer. It is What DDM-SVF Is and Is Not essentially a complete “geologic map Several attributes differentiate on disk” (CD-ROM). Because of its DDM-SVF from map-making systems digital format, the program contains on desktop computers (for example, far more data than even the most the Macintosh-based MiniCad maps complete analog maps. This digital developed by the Geological Survey of map offers several advantages over Canada (Peterson and Hanmer, 1992) hard-copy maps in that it simplifies and DOS-based systems, including finding samples (or units), makes GSMAP (Selner and Taylor, 1991) and information on map features and those of Ambroziak and Cook (1993). associated digital photos instantly First, it is a stand-alone application— available, and allows sequential that is, one needing no other software changes in thematic map type. to run. Second, it was designed by a The maps can be printed out in geologist with the intent of making the color on desktop printers, or saved Figure 1. Page 1 of Dynamic Digital Map overview. Items numbered 2–6 show the major types map and data as intuitively and easily as separate files, and all data can of windows in the program. Item 2 is the index map; selecting (clicking on) the green area in accessible as possible; all maps, images, be saved from the program to tab- this window displays the corresponding map segment (item 3). A click on a chemical sample text, and data can be viewed, saved, delimited ASCII format, making the site or on a unit symbol on that map segment displays the floating palette windows shown in or accessed by simple click or click-and- data easily accessible and accurately items 4 and 5, respectively. The window of item 6 provides alternative means to display this drag commands with the mouse. Third, transferable to other workers. Maps information (see text), to search for and find units and samples on maps, and to transform a this is not a map-making system. It is a of this type offer a venue for pro- map from one thematic map type to another. map “presentation-manager”—that is, ducing high-quality color maps a program designed to take already and associated data quickly and completed digital maps and, with a efficiently, and can be distributed minimum of reformatting, put them electronically (for example, by Inter- on DOS computers). DDM-SVF displays includes a large petrologic data base in a package that maximizes their net) or on disk (by either diskettes or four thematic geologic maps of the and digital photographs. I hope this accessibility to the user. CD-ROMs). Springerville volcanic field, a late article points the way toward what is Miocene to Pleistocene volcanic field in possible in the development of digital DDM-SVF Program vs. INTRODUCTION east-central Arizona; a hard-copy ver- maps and inspires others to produce the Data in the Program sion of these maps will soon be pub- such maps; DDM-SVF barely scratches Desktop computers today offer a A clear distinction between the lished as a U.S. Geological Survey Mis- the surface. new medium for presenting geologic program that contains and presents cellaneous Investigation Series map A demonstration version of DDM- maps, brought on by the development the map (written using a hypermedia (Condit et al., 1995). DDM-SVF is a SVFDemo-v.xx.xx.94 can be obtained of “hypermedia” programming lan- programming language) and the map major expansion of both SuperMap- through the Internet by anonymous guages (or “environments”). One such and data within the program may 7/23/92, which included only a small FTP from eclogite.geo.umass.edu (IP program is SuperCard, which has been part of the field, and of the four hard- address 128.119.45.20), in the directory used to produce DDM-SVF, a prototype copy thematic maps, because it “ccondit.” The hardware needed to run Map continued on p. 87 geologic map on disk soon to be avail- able (see p. 88) on CD-ROM from the Geological Society of America (Condit, Figure 2. The Map win- 1995). Hypermedia environments pro- dow of DDM-SVF, showing vide an efficient way to write software a lithologic map of the to link maps, data, or digital photos northern part of the Greens Peak map segment. Pop-up into an interactive framework, provid- windows (floating palettes) ing the geologist immediate access to display information on units both the map and its associated infor- and samples within this mation. An example of such a link: a map segment (see text for geologist looks at a map on the screen, details). All palettes can be sees a symbol for a chemical analysis or moved to see the map a map unit and, using a mouse, clicks beneath them. On the right on the symbol, immediately bringing side, the page icons repre- up a window containing the chemical sent some of the files that analysis or unit description. Maps and can be saved from this pro- gram for use outside it. data can be easily inserted into such a These include Pict-format program; an example is SuperMap files of the map segment 7/23/92 (Condit and Neutra, 1992), and of a digital photo, and which is included on a CD-ROM. In tab-delimited ASCII files of essence, these programs present a geo- five different types of data logic map in a digital format that that can be opened directly stresses ease of use and accessibility. in spread-sheet programs This article describes DDM-SVF, a or with word processors. prototype dynamic digital map I devel- The hand symbol below the oped for use on the Macintosh com- magenta circle numbered 41 is the mouse cursor; puter (a Windows “player” should be a click on this circle brings available from Allegiant, which pub- up the digital photo lishes SuperCard, early in 1995 for use shown in Figure 3. IN THIS ISSUE GSAF UPDATE Robert L. Fuchs DDM-SVF: A Prototype Dynamic Digital Map of the Springerville Volcanic Second Century Fund Leadership Gift from John Mann Field, Arizona ................... 69 In December 1994 the GSA Foun- course work ever got done. Colorado GSAF Update ....................... 70 dation was notified of the establish- School of Mines summer field camp in ment of the John F. Mann, Jr. Charita- 1942 was a real financial stickler, and I GSA Representatives Needed......... 70 ble Remainder Unitrust. The grantor of ended up instead on a geophysical crew GSA on the Web..................... 70 the trust, GSA Senior Fellow John F. in the ArkLaTex area. So when I started Mann, Jr. of La Habra, California, desig- to think about the future and our In Memoriam ....................... 70 nated the GSA Foundation as the chari- estate, it didn’t take long to remember table remainderman of the trust—that the omnipresent financial shortfall that Washington Report ................. 72 is, the entity to which the principal of hindered me as a student. Carol and SAGE Remarks ...................... 73 the trust will revert after the lives of the I are very happy that we can set up a income beneficiaries, John Mann and fund that is going to make the lives of Partners for Education Program ...... 73 his wife Carolyn V. Mann. This uni- budding geologists of the future just a trust, the third largest gift ever received little less frantic.” 1995 GeoVentures .................. 74 by GSA, is a highly important addition John Mann’s roots are in the John to GSA’s capital campaign, the Second British Isles, his grandfather having CALL FOR PAPERS— Mann 1995 GSA Annual Meeting .......... 75 Century Fund for Earth • Education • immigrated to the United States from Environment. Colchester in Essex County, England. Calendar ........................... 89 In a letter accompanying the gift, It is distinctly possible that John’s in starting elementary school due to GSA Committees John Mann said that he had been talents in hydrogeology may have medical problems, he compressed and Representatives ................. 90 searching for some time for a suitable stemmed from his grandfather’s birth- eight years into six. Being a Mann in means of giving the field of hydrogeol- place in Cistern Yard, where spring Bayonne’s Horace Mann Junior High GSA Meetings ...................... 90 ogy a nationwide boost. The future waters were collected in cisterns and School probably helped. The Boy income from this gift can certainly distributed throughout the town. His Scouts aroused the necessary interest Classifieds .......................... 91 accomplish this purpose; through mother’s family can be traced back to in the outdoors that is fundamental to scholarships, awards, research grants, Galway in Ireland. In the early 20th a geological career; the wilds of Staten and other forms of support, the endow- century, the Manns were a poor, hard- Island provided him with an appropri- ment will have an important effect on working family living in the New ate fieldwork boot camp.
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