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Space-Time Vertigo

Chapter of: Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life(pp. 123–129)

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TitleSpace-Time Vertigo
ContributorBrett Milligan(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.20
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightMilligan, Brett
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-04
Long abstractIn 1897 the United States Geological Survey (USGS) began the task of surveying the entire nation. From 1897 to 1992 the survey produced over 55,000 7.5-minute topography maps, creating the only uniform map covering the entire extent of the lower continental 48 states in detail.1 These surveys became the definitive source for remote sensing2 the country’s lands and what was being inscribed upon them. In contrast to its strictly ‘geologic’ surveys, inventories of subsurface mineral deposits, USGS topographic maps gave equal consideration to surficial landscape features (landforms, rivers, and streams) as well as our cultural alteration of those forms and surfaces. Because the topographic surveys mapped the cultural terrain, they needed to be periodically updated to include how our use of the landscape was changing it.Figure 1 shows two USGS topographic maps depicting the same location and extent of Basin and Range territory in southwestern New Mexico. The first was surveyed around 1915 and the second around 1992. In the interval between them, the survey’s conventions for drawing the landscape remained largely the same. Differences in style are subtle in compari-son to the massive physical changes in the terrain they depict. What in 1915 was a landscape of undulating hills, underground mine shafts and the sprawling town of Tyrone has vanished within the manufactured geography of an open-pit copper mine. In the process, over seven contiguous miles of the former Continental Divide was displaced from its former location.
Page rangepp. 123–129
Print length7 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)