Fjords, Alaska – Maps-Un-Natural™ Poster

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Fjords are characterized by steep-sided mountains dropping precipitately into the sea. The U.S.-Canadian border zig-zags in Coast Range in the upper right of the image. In the center-left, the larger Lynn Canal splits into the western Chilkat Inlet and the eastern Chilkoot Inlet, with the city of Haines between them. The surrounding mountains are covered with glaciers.

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The Maps-Un-Natural™ series could also be called Psychedelic Maps. These are an effort to create a visually stunning and interesting image, usually with a limited color palette. The coloration varies only with elevation and often brings out notable landscape features.

These posters are available on high-quality media (various papers and canvas) using archival inks, and print clearly up to about 34” x 23” (“Large” size). Fulfilled by Zazzle.com. There is a framing option on their website.

Drumlin Field, Wisconsin – Maps-Un-Natural™ Poster

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The drumlin field between Madison and Milwaukee is one of the largest in the United States with about 5000 drumlins. The terrain is generally flat or rolling, and is made up largely of drumlins, oblong hills oriented lengthwise northeast to southwest in the direction of the glacial ice flow. Watertown is in the center of the image.

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The Maps-Un-Natural™ series could also be called Psychedelic Maps. These are an effort to create a visually stunning and interesting image, usually with a limited color palette. The coloration varies only with elevation and often brings out notable landscape features.

These posters are available on high-quality media (various papers and canvas) using archival inks, and print clearly up to about 34” x 23” (“Large” size). Fulfilled by Zazzle.com. There is a framing option on their website.

Mississippi River Delta – Maps-Un-Natural™ Poster

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Not to be confused with the Mississippi Delta further upstream, the river delta forms as sediment is carried out to the mouth of the Great River where it flows into the ocean. The sediment is dropped as the force of the water can no longer carry it. Over time, the delta keeps extending outward. However, the Mississippi River Delta is shrinking due to dams and water diversion which reduce the amount of sediment in the river, so the natural forces of erosion, such as hurricanes, are dominant.

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The Maps-Un-Natural™ series could also be called Psychedelic Maps. These are an effort to create a visually stunning and interesting image, usually with a limited color palette. The coloration varies only with elevation and often brings out notable landscape features.

These posters are available on high-quality media (various papers and canvas) using archival inks, and print clearly up to about 34” x 23” (“Large” size). Fulfilled by Zazzle.com. There is a framing option on their website.

Coulee Country, Washington – Maps-Un-Natural™ Poster

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At the end of the last ice age, large glacial outburst floods carved out canyons, or coulees, in the landscape, so this area in Central Washington became known as “Coulee Country”. Sun Lakes State Park is at the center, and Coulee City is in the upper right corner of the image.

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The Maps-Un-Natural™ series could also be called Psychedelic Maps. These are an effort to create a visually stunning and interesting image, usually with a limited color palette. The coloration varies only with elevation and often brings out notable landscape features.

These posters are available on high-quality media (various papers and canvas) using archival inks, and print clearly up to about 34” x 23” (“Large” size). Fulfilled by Zazzle.com. There is a framing option on their website.

Park information: http://www.parks.wa.gov/parks/?selectedpark=Sun%20Lakes

Maine Coast – Maps-Un-Natural™ Poster

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The rugged Maine Coast is comprised of weathered metamorphosed bedrock eroded by rivers and the sea. In addition, the area is slowly subsiding 5-10 mm per year. This image is centered around the Damariscotta River, with the Sheepscot River to the east. The town of Boothbay is at the very center-left bottom.

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The Maps-Un-Natural™ series could also be called Psychedelic Maps. These are an effort to create a visually stunning and interesting image, usually with a limited color palette. The coloration varies only with elevation and often brings out notable landscape features.

These posters are available on high-quality media (various papers and canvas) using archival inks, and print clearly up to about 34” x 23” (“Large” size). Fulfilled by Zazzle.com. There is a framing option on their website.

Canyonlands National Park – Maps-Un-Natural™ Poster

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Canyonlands National Park is a showcase of geology. The vivid and varied colors of the bare rocks and the fantastic canyons, buttes, spires, columns, alcoves, caves, arches, and other erosional forms of the canyon country result from a fortuitous combination of geologic and climatic circumstances and events unequaled inmost other parts of the world. This image shows the central part of the park including Island in the Sky and Upheaval Dome south to the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

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The Maps-Un-Natural™ series could also be called Psychedelic Maps. These are an effort to create a visually stunning and interesting image, usually with a limited color palette. The coloration varies only with elevation and often brings out notable landscape features.

These posters are available on high-quality media (various papers and canvas) using archival inks, and print clearly up to about 34” x 23” (“Large” size). Fulfilled by Zazzle.com. There is a framing option on their website.

Park information: http://www.nps.gov/cany/index.htm

Piceance Basin / Colorado Plateau – Maps-Un-Natural™ Poster

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In Western Colorado lies the Piceance Basin, a 6000 square mile geologic structure comprising formations holding vast natural gas, coal and oil shale reserves. The Piceance Basin is part of the Colorado Plateau and shares much of the same canyon terrain. The Williams Fork component is a several-thousand-foot thick section of shale, sandstone and coal deposited in a coastal plain environment – one of the richest in the world. In addition, there is an estimated 300-plus trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the formation. Grand Junction is located at the bottom of the image.

As part of Operation Plowshare to promote the use of nuclear explosives for peaceful purposes, two explosions occured within the scope of this map to release natural gas. One was Project Rulison in 1969, using one 40-kiloton device eight miles southeast of what is now Parachute. The other, Project Rio Blanco, detonated three 30-kiloton devices in 1973, 30 miles northwest of Parachute. Both released large amounts of gas, but fears of radioactivity reaching consumers ended the project.

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The Maps-Un-Natural™ series could also be called Psychedelic Maps. These are an effort to create a visually stunning and interesting image, usually with a limited color palette. The coloration varies only with elevation and often brings out notable landscape features.

These posters are available on high-quality media (various papers and canvas) using archival inks, and print clearly up to about 34” x 23” (“Large” size). Fulfilled by Zazzle.com. There is a framing option on their website.