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GIS Services Offer

Here’s something regarding Geographic Information Systems [GIS] sure to grab someones attention. One of my main advertisers, LumiViz, is holding a Month of 10% Savings of GIS Services special offer. LumiViz is a small computer-based geoscientific mapping, modeling, and visualization services outfit with an extremely impressive array of technical experience and applied skills.

LumiViz is high-energy, and they promise to have more of these special offers for different software environment service areas as time goes on. I’ve listed the guidelines and rules for the GIS Services 10% Savings Month offer below.

General:

All transactions, correspondence, calculations, communications, and output are to be completed in English and US Dollars; Work tasks associated with this limited time special offer will be completed inside the ESRI ArcGIS 10.0 environment; Out of scope services will be categorized as a different Purchase Order under the full, standard rate for LumiViz GIS Services; Offer only valid for Purchase Orders executed and signed between May 9, 2012 at 12:00:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time until June 9, 2012 at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time; A fixed point of completion will be identified and codified in the Scope of Services (Scope of Work) and Purchase Order such that there . . . → Read More: GIS Services Offer

Raleigh Bedrock Outcrop

Becrock Outcrop Photograph facing South - photo by J. Sents, 2012

The Raleigh, North Carolina area is a peneplain. The area has been devoid of any mountain building events for quite some time so the land surface has very low relief. As a result, outcrops of exposed metamorphic bedrock across the Piedmont physiographic province are few and far between. Additionally, bedrock may be covered by a literal veneer of dense soil and/or saprolite which conceals the bedrock below by mere inches.

But fear not!  I am a trained geologist and have become adept at finding these obscure bedrock outcrops.  So for reference, and in case anyone wants to go and visit, lets start with a map that I cobbed together.

Site Location of Bedrock Outcrop along US-401 South, Raleigh, North Carolina – photo by J. Sents, 2012

I used the Wake County iMAPS GIS [Beta] for the base layers used to create the map above.  The location presents itself as an unpaved, unmarked parking lot.  Along the southern edge of the lot, a stand of trees and bushes conceals the exposed bedrock.  So a few days after the initial identification of this site, I made first contact with my camera and compass.

Bedrock Outcrop Photograph facing South – photo . . . → Read More: Raleigh Bedrock Outcrop