POLE POSITION Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Of late, I have been trying to do my first ec, and I need a little help. The first one I tried to publish, I got a reply from the local National Park saying "you need to send us a copy of the listing before you publish you submit it for publishing," now I'm trying to figure that one out, plus I really need to get a couple good ec spots. The area is the arbuckle mountains of southern oklahoma. If you guys out there in the forums could give me a couple ideas as to questions that might possibly fit the area, please, let me know. While I'm at it, could anybody give some general information pertaining to ecs, that would help me in my attempt to get my first ec published. Quote Link to comment
+PorscheSpyder Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Sorry! Can't be of much help here. Anyone else might be, but not me. Quote Link to comment
crawil Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 POLE POSITION, check in with your local forums. They will have more local information than most of us can. Good luck! Quote Link to comment
+Ashallond Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Do what I did. Talk with the land managers at the park about the natural features, and ask them what they have as lessons or interesting features in the national park that the guides talk about frequently. If you tie it into their education program, and do the work for them, but let them take advantage of it....then they tend to be a lot more willing to work with you, as you are getting more visitors to their park. Quote Link to comment
+Geoextreme87 Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Of late, I have been trying to do my first ec, and I need a little help. The first one I tried to publish, I got a reply from the local National Park saying "you need to send us a copy of the listing before you publish you submit it for publishing," now I'm trying to figure that one out, plus I really need to get a couple good ec spots. The area is the arbuckle mountains of southern oklahoma. If you guys out there in the forums could give me a couple ideas as to questions that might possibly fit the area, please, let me know. While I'm at it, could anybody give some general information pertaining to ecs, that would help me in my attempt to get my first ec published. A common place to find tons of cool info is at your state's geological survey's website. It can be a little hit and miss if your looking for a particular place but they have tons of publications on the geology with in your state. Some surveys do a series of educational publications which are created to help show amateur geologist and the non geologist community outstanding geologic landmarks as well explanations on what they are and how they generally formed. These publications tend to be free and are sometimes downloadable as a pdf onto your computer. Saying such, there is also a lot more technical papers that these surveys do have and can be useful and often show photographs of sites and elaborate details and interpretations on such. However these papers assume that their readers have a very solid background in geology and usually a good background in a specialized subdivisions of geology (ie. mineralagy, petrology, invertebrate paleontology, stratigraphy, etc.). Essentailly they are writing papers generally at a Masters or even a PhD level and to an earthcacher who has a BA in lets say economics these types of papers can be difficult to understand and correlate correctly. Saying all this, I'm just wanting to give a friendly warning and not intended to be a deterrent at looking at these types of publications. I should also mention that not all publications by a state survey may be free and it really depends strongly on which state you are looking at how helpful this source can be. Finally if you do find something of interest and is useful in creating an Earthcache do make sure you cite your literature(s) that you used. Quote Link to comment
+TerryDad2 Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 The grammar on the NPS response is a little questionable. I have found that their requirement is to check that visitors aren't going to be sent off to places that are sensitive. They are effectively associating their name with the EarthCache, so they would like to check the content for accuracy. I’ve had the review go as far the as the park geologist and academic researchers that do work in the park to just a check of the cords. As for suggestions, check out the following pages for subjects and references to look for and/or locations to try to find. http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/struc...ta/ouachita.htm http://www.ogs.ou.edu/fossilfuels/coalpdfs...20Mountains.pdf Specific Field guides for your area can be found http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/www.gs...n=0-8137-5404-6 There are a few for the Arbuckle Mountains http://www.gsajournals.org/archive/0-8137-...4-6-4-0-153.pdf http://www.gsajournals.org/archive/0-8137-...4-6-4-0-159.pdf http://www.gsajournals.org/archive/0-8137-...4-6-4-0-171.pdf http://www.gsajournals.org/archive/0-8137-...4-6-4-0-177.pdf http://www.gsajournals.org/archive/0-8137-...4-6-4-0-183.pdf Good luck. Let me know if you need any help with them Quote Link to comment
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