Accrectionary Wedge #43 favorite geologic illustrations

Hollis @ 'In the Company of Plants and Rocks' has put out the call-for-posts-accretionary-wedge-43-my.html.  At first  I've thought about it and was going to use one that I've used before but since the call has come out I changed my mind yesterday.
This is the one I want to use instead.

Hammond (1992) World Map

  The reason I've decided to go with this one is because it is the picture that I have hanging over my son's bed.  Every day my son gets to look at this diagram of the world while he lays in his bed.  You wouldn't think doing something like that would make a difference but it does.  He's won his school geography bee and he's pasted the states test and is now going to compete for the states top honor. We got the letter that tells us he's going yesterday.
   I've copied the announcement  that was at the schools web site which is located here @ http://www.middlemagnet.com/  .  

Good Luck Venkat and Matthew!

The Alliance for Education’s Regional Spelling Bee is Saturday, March 3rd at 10 a.m. at LSUS.  Venkat Sivaraman, an eighth grader, will represent CMM.  The competition will broadcast live on CW21 so tune-in to check out all the action!  Good luck Venkat!

Matthew Willis has qualified to represent CMM and participate at the state level of the National Geographic Bee, sponsored by Google and Plum Creek.  The state bee will be held on Friday, March 30th at Bishop Robert E. Tracy Center in Baton Rouge.  Good luck Matthew!

    His brother that is 8 1/2 years older had the same map hanging over his bed when he was younger and made it to the state Geography bee too. Mark lost in the third round of competition at the state.  Ever since Mark won his medal Matt has been determined to get one too.  Now they both have the National Geographic medals hanging proudly in our kitchen along with all the other medals they and their other brother have won over the years.

 You never know what a child will learn or how they will learn but being exposed a variety of different things  does make a difference. That's why I liked having the world map so readily available for my children as they were growing up.  If they had a question about a country they could quickly look and find where it was located in the world and wonder if where it was located helped them with their question.
    Another map that may have done the trick is this map that is in our hallway to their bedrooms.  This map also they got to look at every day.  They used to like to look at this one when we would have a trip planned and see what was a good way to get where we were going to go.

National Geographic Society map of the United States (Sept 1987)

But those two illustrations were not the one I had originally thought of.
The illustration I was going to use was this map of the United States, from 'Field Guide to Landforms in The United States' by John A. Shimer (1972) on the book jacket.

John A Shimer's"'Field Guide to Landforms in the United States"(1972) book cover

   I had used it once before when I hosted  Accretionary Wedge # 29 .  I have always loved maps of the United States. I especially liked this one because it showed the Geologic Provinces.  Whenever I would travel I would like to look at this map and read the accompanying book to get an idea of the geology I would be traveling through.
  The other reason I like this one so much is that through the years I've used it so may time to get the two letter zip codes abbreviation for states I don't write to regularly. I had written them in, because in my geomorph class we were going to have a quiz on it and was threaten with if we didn't get a hundred on this quiz there was no way we would ever be able to pass his class.  I got my hundred but since then I've always had a hard time remembering that Arkansas is AR and not AK which is Alaska and AR is not used for Arizona which is AZ and Alaska is not Al or AA or AS but Alabama is AL and not AB which is what I want to use.  I also would mess up with Virginia - I want to write VI and not VA and why it isn't baffles me since Hawii is HI or why Georgia is GA and not GE or what I used to like to write GEO.
   Needless to say through the years that book has been looked at a lot and is one of my favorites and is a great reference to keep handy.
    So now for Accretionary Wedge 43, I just have to say I just like looking at any map illustration of the United States.