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High Island geology and landforms

Map: High Island geology and landforms.

Island-scale physical-geography baseline for High Island: generalized Quaternary geology with separate bedrock, landsystem, and critical-dune survey symbols.

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A vertically oriented thematic map shows a pale landform surrounded by blue water with graduated offshore bands. Broad tan and olive areas cover the land, while diagonal hatching marks a long western zone and smaller areas near the shoreline. A legend appears at upper left, with a scale bar along the bottom.

A model wrote this. It was shown the image and the catalogue record together, and asked to keep them apart — what it saw is here, what the record told it is under "taken from the record" below. It is still wrong often enough to matter, about who is pictured, where, when, and what is happening. Read it as a way to find the image, never as evidence about it. If you can correct it, please do: write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com, or see how corrections work. Someone who recognises a face or a shoreline knows more than the model did.

Drawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); Michigan Geological Survey Quaternary and bedrock geology, glacial landsystems, critical dune areas, and USGS 3DEP (public domain).

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High Island geology and landforms
Island-scale physical-geography baseline
Survey layers
Dune sand
Lacustrine sand and gravel
Bedrock formation contact
Glacial-landforms boundary
Critical Dune Area

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Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.

The archive record identifies this as an atlas plate in the Physical Geography Atlas collection. It describes generalized Quaternary geology with separate bedrock, landsystem, and critical-dune survey symbols. The drawing is recorded as CC BY 4.0, with underlying data credited to OpenStreetMap contributors, the Michigan Geological Survey, and the USGS 3DEP program.

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CC BY 4.0 for the drawing; underlying data under its own terms (see credit)

Credit this to Drawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); Michigan Geological Survey Quaternary and bedrock geology, glacial landsystems, critical dune areas, and USGS 3DEP (public domain). when you use it.

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“High Island geology and landforms”. Beaver Island Archive. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/plate/high-island-geology/.

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