Belgian Amiga Club - ADF Collection/BS1 part 27.zip/BS1 part 27/Panorama3_d3.adf/KingsCanyon.doc

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                           Kings Canyon

     Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks include the highest and
some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in the Sierra Nevada range
of California.  Mount Whitney, on the eastern crest of the Sierras, is
the highest mountain in the United States outside of Alaska.  The range
is a huge fault block which rises gradually from the Central Valley on
the west to a crest towering up to 10,000 feet above Owens Valley on the
east.  The Kings River drains a large part of the central Sierra Nevada.
To the south of Kings Canyon there is a high ridge of mountains
paralleling the Sierra Crest, called the Great Western Divide.  The
Kings-Kern Divide marks the boundary between Kings Canyon and Sequoia
National Parks and joins the Great Western Divide to the Sierra Crest.
The Kern River flows south between the Great Western Divide and the
Sierra Crest.  The area was heavily glaciated during the Ice Age and is
dotted with a large number of high alpine lakes.
     The Mount Brewer 7.5-minute DEM covers the northern end of the
Great Western Divide, where it meets the Kings-Kern Divide.  Mount Brewer
itself is on the Great Western Divide a little north of the junction,
not long before it plunges down into Kings Canyon.  The valley just east
of Mount Brewer is that of East Creek.  The larger lake at the head of
the valley is Lake Reflection.  Points in the DEM are spaced by 30 meters
both West to East and South to North in the Universal Transverse
Mercator coordinate system.
     The SierrasW.DEMset file will set up the rendering parameters
appropriately for this area.  Select it in the first file requester
that appears when you Save Data from GeoRama program.  You can use this
as a starting point for your own rendering scheme.