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Exploring Maps (Score: 1.000)

Orienteering Information on orienteering tours around the USGS National Center building teaching visitors how to use topographic maps. Includes information on tour times, guided tours, self-guiding tours, interesting facts, Earthquiz and directions to Center. (Score: 0.690)

Orienteering Exercise (Score: 0.460)

The Parkfield Experiment - capturing what happens in an earthquake Fact sheet describing plans for a San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) by drilling into the fault to install instruments for long-term monitoring near the location of the magnitude 6 Parkfield earthquakes. (Score: 0.367)

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About geolocation measurement:

Definition: Methods for establishing a geographic location on the surface of the Earth.

Used for: location measurement, navigating, orienteering