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Volume: 22 (1938)

Issue: 12. (December)

First Page: 1706

Last Page: 1706

Title: Aerial Photography for Geological Exploration: ABSTRACT

Author(s): Louis V. Olson

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

The use of aerial photographs has gradually increased until at the present time no important surface geological work or any other surface exploration work, such as for power lines, canals, or pipe lines, is undertaken without the preliminary of an aerial survey. The sensitivity of the modern photographic materials is such that by the proper use of light filters slight color changes may be detected denoting changes of bedding planes which could not be detected by the eye. Stereoscopes have been developed that make it possible to detect even minor changes in elevation. Sketching of contours on the photograph tends to eliminate laborious ground survey work. Of course, the stereoscope also indicates the relative hardness of adjacent terrain, which is very important in tracing rock formation.

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