Map Book Gallery

View maps created by fellow professionals in the mining community.

Volume 23: GIS—Geography in Action

Australian Offshore Mineral Locations
The Australian Offshore Mineral Locations map shows mineral occurrences and deposits within Australia’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone and extended continental shelf. Bathymetry shows the variable physiography of the seafloor that surrounds Australia.

Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach

Monitoring Volcanoes on Iceland
The objective of the ongoing project Hazard Assessment and Prediction of Icelandic Volcanoes is the establishment of a largely operational monitoring service to be employed for risk assessment, early warning, and damage mitigation.

Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World

Soils of Thunder Creek Watershed, North Cascades National Park
This map shows the distribution of soils as they form under the forces of nature in Thunder Creek Watershed. Since access within the watershed is limited to a few trails, the map is the result of a GIS model called the Remote Area Soil Proxy model.

Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World

1613-2, Hengill Southwest Iceland Map Series
The data used for this project was a seamless digital database of the entire Iceland IS 50V developed by the National Land Survey of Iceland.

Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography

Sub-Andean Geological Map
This surface geology map in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was used as a source of information for structural analysis combined with topographic information using ArcInfo. Dip direction data obtained in the field was also added. With data entry completed, symbology was assigned to each layer.

The Map Book Gallery features the ESRI Map Book series dedicated to acknowledging the important and innovative accomplishments of GIS users around the world.

Published annually, each volume of the ESRI Map Book showcases a small portion of the work presented at the Map Gallery Exhibition at the annual ESRI International User Conference.