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AGS Earthquake Geology Training, September 2007 Photo Gallery
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AGS geologists Shah Mahmood (left) Sayed Aziz Sadat (center) and USGS geologist Cal Ruleman examining air photos of the field study area in northern New Mexico.
Original [6.8MB]		 USGS geologist Cal Ruleman discussion interpretation of aerial photographs with Mohammad Mirza.
Original [5.7MB]		 AGS geologists Shah Mahmood (left), Mohammad Mirza (center), and Sayed Aziz Sadat (right) taking a field measurement with an electronic distance measuring (EDM) instrument.
Original [3.2MB]		 Mohammad Mirza (right), reads data from electronic distance measuring (EDM) instrument as others observe the procedure.
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Sayed Aziz Sadat examining the exposure in the northern trench at the Latir Creek study site, northern New Mexico.
Original [10.4MB]		 Sayed Aziz Sadat examining the exposure in the northern trench at the Latir Creek study site, northern New Mexico.
Original [3.3MB]		 Shah Mahmood entering coordinates of fault locations in Afghanistan into his GPS receiver.
Original [5.8MB]		 Sayed Aziz Sadat entering coordinates of fault locations in Afghanistan into his GPS receiver.
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Mohammad Mirza entering coordinates of fault locations in Afghanistan into his GPS receiver.
Original [4.9MB]		 AGS geologists taking measurements to create a profile of a fault scarp as USGS geologist Cal Ruleman observes the process.
Original [3.7MB]		 AGS geologists measuring the angle of a stadia rod as part of the process to collect data for a fault-scarp profile.
Original [3.9MB]		 AGS geologist Shah Mahmood using an Abney level to measure the angle of a slope on a fault scarp.
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AGS geologists measuring the angle of a slope on a fault scarp to create a scarp profile as USGS geologist Cal Ruleman observes the process.
Original [3.7MB]		 AGS geologists Shah Mahmood (left) and Sayed Aziz Sadat (right) examining deposits exposed in the southern trench at the Latir Creek study site, northern New Mexico.
Original [4.1MB]		 AGS and USGS geologists working in trench excavated across large scarp at the Latir Creek study site.
Original [3.3MB]		 AGS geologists marking stratigraphic units in the south trench at the Latir Creek study site.
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USGS geologist Anthony Crone discussing stratigraphy in the south trench at the Latir Creek study site with AGS geologists Shah Mahmood (front) and Sayed Aziz Sadat (rear).
Original [1.5MB]		 AGS geologists Mohammad Mirza (upper) and Shah Mahmood (lower) measuring stratigraphic contacts in the southern trench at the Latir Creek study site.
Original [9.6MB]		 AGS geologist Sayed Aziz Sadat plotting data points to create map of the southern trench at the Latir Creek study site.
Original [9.2MB]		 AGS geologist Shah Mahmood cleaning the wall of the northern trench at the Latir Creek study site to clarify details of the exposed sediments.
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AGS geologists Mohammad Mirza (left) and Shah Mahmood (right) discussing stratigraphic relations and how to map the southern trench at the Latir Creek study site.
Original [5.8MB]		 AGS geologists using colored pins to map stratigraphic contacts in the southern trench at the Latir Creek study site.
Original [8.9MB]		 AGS geologist Sayed Aziz Sadat measuring stratigraphic units in the southern trench at the Latir Creek study site.
Original [7.8MB]		 USGS geologist Anthony Crone (center) with AGS geologists Shah Mahmood (left) and Sayed Aziz Sadat (right) in the southern trench at the Latir Creek study site.
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