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ASF Cave Survey and Map Standards

Tables 1.1 - 1.3: Map Symbols

Revised April, 1999, to provide partial conformity with UIS International Cave Symbols

Ken Grimes, 1 March, 1997 ASF Survey Commission

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Tables
1.1 Survey Stations
1.2 Special Lines
1.3 Outlines
1.4 Changes of level or slope
1.5. Materials
1.6 Secondary deposits


1.7 Physics
1.8 Artificial Constructions
1.9 Surface Features
1.10 Entrances (1) UIS
1.11 Entrances (2) UIS

 

Map Symbols

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1.1 SURVEY STATIONS
Ref. Map symbol Profile view
(where appropriate)		 Description
1.1 Fig 1.1 here Horizontal datum point. (permanently marked control station with fixed co-ordinates)
1.2 Fig 1.2 Vertical datum point with altitude.
1.3 Fig 1.3 Combined horizontal and vertical datum point.
1.4 Fig 1.4 Permanently marked survey station.
1.5 Fig 1.5 Unmarked (but relocatable) survey station.
1.6 Fig 1.6 Unmarked natural feature used as a survey station. (Described in survey abstract)

1.2 SPECIAL LINES
Ref. Map symbol Profile view
(where appropriate)		 Description
2.1 Fig 2.1 Section line showing direction of view and reference letter.
2.2a Fig 2.2 Change of survey grade

1.3 OUTLINES
Ref. Map symbol Profile view
(where appropriate)		 Description
3.1 Fig 3.1 Outline. (Various thicknesses may be used for different sections, or levels). The outline should be heavier than all other lines.
3.2 Fig 3.2 Conjectural outline.
3.3 Fig 3.3 Outlines at significantly different levels or displaced from section plane.
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