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Rachel Quist

Rachel Quist is an archaeologist working in the Great Basin of the Western United States.She has specific expertise in cultural resource management, prehistoric technology, lithic toolstone, procurement, geomorphology of the Bonneville Basin, and public history projects. She may be contacted through her website at www.rachelquist.com.

Geography of Coffee

September 15, 2012 by Rachel Quist

To geographers, coffee holds a number of intriguing chronicles relating to physical geography, human geography, biogeography, and many other aspects.

Categories Maps and Cartography Tags coffee, coffee maps, geography of coffee
A map showing grayscale relief and a quaternary fault scarp.

How Archaeologists and Geomorphologists Can Work Together to Understand the Quaternary

November 5, 2023January 5, 2012 by Rachel Quist

Archaeologists and geomorphologists are some of the best suited professions for interdisciplinary research into the Late Quaternary period.

Categories Physical Geography Tags archaelogy, Danger Cave, geomorphology, Jukebox Cave
A map of the world in the Robinson map projection.

A Look at Some Map Projections

December 3, 2011 by Rachel Quist

The Robinson, Transverse Mercator, Lambert Conformal Conic, and Space Oblique Mercator projections are discussed in this article.

Categories GIS Learning Tags GIS analysis, Lambert Conformal Conic, map projections, Robinson Projection, Space Oblique Mercator, Transverse Mercator projection
Pleistocene lakes and rivers from 15,000 years ago of the Mojave Desert. Source: USGS, 2004

Ancient Pluvial Lakes of North America and What They Can Tell Us about Climate Change

July 13, 2023December 2, 2011 by Rachel Quist

Datasets of paleoenvironmental variability contained in a variety of pluvial lakes is a treasure-trove of past climate conditions.

Categories Climatology Tags climate change, climatology, Great Basin, pluvial lakes
Ptolemy's World Map from Geographia (~150 CE), reproduced in the 15th Century.

Ptolemy’s Geographia

September 18, 2023November 30, 2011 by Rachel Quist

Ptolemy was not only a geographer but a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and even a poet.

Categories Maps and Cartography Tags Geographia, Greek cartographers
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