The 3D Underground Map
Instead, it offers a striking oblique 3D view where the surface of the earth has been sliced open like a layer cake. DrillerDB has managed to map the data to standard USGS lithologic classifications.
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Instead, it offers a striking oblique 3D view where the surface of the earth has been sliced open like a layer cake.
DrillerDB has managed to map the data to standard USGS lithologic classifications.
Rising above the horizon is standard aerial imagery draped over USGS 3DEP elevation data, but the real star of this map lies directly underneath: a volumetric 3D cross-section revealing the actual...
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Instead, it offers a striking oblique 3D view where the surface of the earth has been sliced open like a layer cake. DrillerDB has managed to map the data to standard USGS lithologic classifications. The resulting Underground Viewer renders these records as color-coded, vertical lithology blocks.
How it works
- Where data thins out or evidence runs dry, the cross-section fades to black rather than inventing speculative layers.
- Rising above the horizon is standard aerial imagery draped over USGS 3DEP elevation data, but the real star of this map lies directly underneath: a volumetric 3D cross-section revealing the actual...
- In these 3D cross sections you can see distinct beds of clay, sand, gravel, shale, and limestone stacked continuously under the ground.
- Where local well logs offer direct physical evidence, the model draws the geological faces as solid colors.
Details worth keeping
scanned directly off decades of paper reports.
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