• Michigan: A Geography Outline
     

    • Ch. 1 Introduction to Michigan as a region LARRY SOMMERS / RANDY SCHAETZL (Ed-Schaetzl)
       
  • GEOLOGY
    • Ch. 2 Introduction and overview BILL CAMBRAY (Ed-Brandt)
    • Ch. 3 Precambrian environments and life BILL CAMBRAY / DANITA BRANDT (Ed-Brandt)
    • Ch. 4 Paleozoic environments and life STEVE LODUCA (Ed-Brandt)
    • Ch. 5 The lost interval in the Michigan Basin MICHAEL VELBEL (Ed-Brandt)
    • Ch. 6 Pleistocene environments GRAHAME LARSON / KEVIN KINCARE (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 7 Paleoeocology and paleoenvironments (last 14 ka) C. HUPY / C. YANSA (Ed-Brandt)
    • Ch. 8 Pleistocene fauna AL HOLMAN / DANITA BRANDT (Ed-Brandt)
    • Ch. 9 Michigan seismicity KAZ FUJITA / NORMAN SLEEP (Ed-Brandt)
    • Ch. 10 Hydrocarbon resources of the Michigan Basin BILL HARRISON (Ed-Brandt)
    • Ch. 11 Iron mining: beginnings to present-day GEORGE MERK (Ed-Brandt)
    • Ch. 12 The story of copper and copper mining TED BORNHORST / LARRY LANKTON (Ed-Brandt)
       
  • PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
    • Ch. 13 Glacial lakes and the Great Lakes KEVIN KINCARE / GRAHAME LARSON (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 14 The Great Lakes TED BATTERSON (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 15 Surface water resources LOIS WOLFSON (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 16 Groundwater resources DAVE LUSCH (Ed-Schaetzl)
      Ch. 17 The physical landscape BILL BLEWETT / DAVE LUSCH / RANDY SCHAETZL (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 18 Dunes and eolian landforms ALAN ARBOGAST (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 19 Meteorology, storms and hazards JEFF ANDRESEN / JULIE WINKLER (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 20 Soils RANDY SCHAETZL (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 21 Plant geography JAY HARMAN (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 22 Terrestrial game and nongame fauna JOELLE GEHRING (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 23 Aquatic fauna REUBEN GOFORTH (Ed-Schaetzl)
      Ch. 24  Isle Royale JEAN BATTLE / JOHN ANDERTON / RANDY SCHAETZL (Ed-Schaetzl)
       
  • HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
    • Ch. 25 Between the Glaciers and Europeans: The People of Michigan from 12 000 to 400 Years Ago
                  BILL LOVIS (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 26 Native Americans in Michigan GEORGE CORNELL (Ed-Darden)
    • Ch. 27 The settlement experience ROGER ROSENTRETTER (Ed-Darden)
    • Ch. 28 The US Public Land Survey in Michigan MORRIS THOMAS (Ed-Darden)
       
  • CONTEMPORARY LAND USE GEOGRAPHY
    • Ch. 29 Land use and land cover patterns BILL WELSH / DANIEL BROWN / JOE MESSINA (Ed-Darden)
    • Ch. 30 The Great Lakes' iron and steel industry KEVIN PATRICK (Ed-Darden)
    • Ch. 31 The auto industry and the manufacturing sector A.J. JACOBS (Ed-Darden)
    • Ch. 32 Urban settlements in MI, sprawl and the future IGOR VOJNOVIC (Ed-Darden)
    • Ch. 33 Race matters in Detroit JOE DARDEN (Ed-Darden)
    • Ch. 34 Migration, demographics, ethnicity DICK GROOP (Ed-Darden)
    • Ch. 35 Tourism/recreation SARAH NICHOLLS (Ed-Darden)
    • Ch. 36 Agriculture: field crops DON CHRISTENSON / DARRYL WARNCKE (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 37 Agriculture: specialty crops DARRYL WARNCKE / DON CHRISTENSON (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 38 Agriculture: fruit JERRY HULL / JEFF ANDRESEN (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 39 Agriculture: grapes and wine TOM ZABADAL (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 40 Forests and forestry from an historical perspective DON DICKMANN (Ed-Schaetzl)
    • Ch. 41 Lumbering and wood products from an economic perspective LARRY LEEFERS (Ed-Schaetzl)
       
  • APPENDIX
 

  • Ch. 1
  • Introduction to Michigan as a region
  • LARRY SOMMERS / RANDY SCHAETZL
  • Department: MSU Geography
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: sommers1@msu.edu / soils@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-4649 / 353-7726
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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GEOLOGY

  • Ch. 2
  • Introduction and overview
  • BILL CAMBRAY
  • MSU Geological Sciences
  • Editor: Brandt
  • Email: cambray@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-9568
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 3
  • Precambrian environments and life
  • BILL CAMBRAY / DANITA BRANDT
  • MSU Geological Sciences
  • Editor: Brandt
  • Email: cambray@msu.edu / brandt@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-9568 / 355-6595
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 4
  • Paleozoic environments and life
  • STEVE LODUCA
  • EMU Geography and Geology
  • Editor: Brandt
  • Email: steve.loduca@emich.edu
  • Phone: 734-487-8589
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 5
  • The lost interval in the Michigan Basin
  • MICHAEL VELBEL
  • MSU Geological Sciences
  • Editor: Brandt
  • Email: velbel@msu.edu
  • Phone: 353-5273
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 6
  • Pleistocene environments
  • GRAHAME LARSON / KEVIN KINCARE
  • MSU Geological Sciences / Michigan Geological Survey
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: larsong@msu.edu / kincarek@michigan.gov
  • Phone: 353-9485 / 241-1535
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 7
  • Paleoeocology and paleoenvironments (last 14 ka)
  • CHRISTINA HUPY / CATHERINE YANSA
  • Colgate Univ Geography / MSU Geography
  • Editor: Brandt
  • Email: kulaschr@msu.edu / pollen@msu.edu
  • Phone: 646-831-4569 / 353-3910
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Holocene Forest Vegetation
Cowden Lake Pollen Diagram
Kitchner Lake Pollen Diagram
Wintergreen Lake Pollen Diagram
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  • Ch. 8
  • Pleistocene fauna
  • AL HOLMAN / DANITA BRANDT
  • MSU Museum
  • Editor: Brandt
  • Email: holman@msu.edu / brandt@msu.edu
  • Phone: 353-8895 / 355-6595
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Available
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Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Out-of-State earthquakes felt in Michigan
Faults and Gravity Highs in southern Michigan and Adjacent Indiana and Ohio
Types of Seismic Waves
Glacial Unloading Effects
Seismicity Map of Michigan
Felt Intensities for the 1947 Coldwater event
Isoseismals for the 1994 Eaton Rapids event
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  • Ch. 10
  • Hydrocarbon resources of the Michigan Basin
  • BILL HARRISON
  • WMU Geology
  • Editor: Brandt
  • Email: william.harrison_iii@wmich.edu
  • Phone: 616-387-5488
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 11
  • Iron mining: beginnings to present-day
  • GEORGE MERK
  • MSU Geological Sciences
  • Editor: Brandt
  • Email: merk@msu.edu
  • Phone: NA
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 12
  • The story of copper and copper mining
  • TED BORNHORST / LARRY LANKTON
  • MTU Seaman Mineral Museum / MTU Department of Social Sciences
  • Editor: Brandt
  • Email: tjb@mtu.edu / ldlankto@mtu.edu
  • Phone: 906-487-2721 / 906-487-2113
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • Ch. 13
  • Glacial lakes and the Great Lakes
  • KEVIN KINCARE / GRAHAME LARSON
  • Michigan Geological Survey / MSU Geological Sciences
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: kincarek@michigan.gov / larsong@msu.edu
  • Phone: 241-1535 / 353-9485
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 14
  • The Great Lakes
  • TED BATTERSON
  • MSU Fisheries & Wildlife
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: batters2@msu.edu
  • Phone: 353-1962
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Great Lakes System Profile
Lake Hydrology: Short-term Fluctuations
Chicago Rivers and Canals
Great Lakes Hydrologic System
Great Lakes Ownership
Seasonal Fluctuations
Long Term Fluctuations
Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
Counties in the Great Lakes Basin
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  • Ch. 15
  • Surface water resources
  • LOIS WOLFSON
  • MSU Fisheries & Wildlife
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: wolfson1@msu.edu
  • Phone: 353-9222
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 16
  • Groundwater resources
  • DAVE LUSCH
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: lusch@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-8497
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 18
  • Dunes and eolian landforms
  • ALAN ARBOGAST
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: dunes@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-5262
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Available
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  • Ch. 19
  • Meteorology, storms and hazards
  • JEFF ANDRESEN / JULIE WINKLER
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: andresen@msu.edu / winkler@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-0231 / 353-9186
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Michigan 30-Year Climate Normals
Major Cyclogenic Areas
Climatology of Airflow Trajectories
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  • Ch. 20
  • Soils
  • RANDY SCHAETZL
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: soils@msu.edu
  • Phone: 353-7726
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
General Soils Map of Michigan
Dominant Drainage Class of Soils in Michigan
Dominant Surface Texture of Soils in Michigan
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  • Ch. 21
  • Plant geography
  • JAY HARMAN
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: harman@msu.edu
  • Phone: 353-9030
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Graphics Available
Location of Floristic Tension Zone
Species Range Limits
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  • Ch. 22
  • Terrestrial game and nongame fauna
  •  JOELLE GEHRING
  • Michigan Natural Features Inventory, MSU Extension
  • Edttor: Schaetzl
  • Email: gehringj@michigan.gov
  • Phone: 241-4912
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 23
  • Aquatic fauna
  • REUBEN GOFORTH
  • MNFI and MSU Fisheries and Wildlife
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: goforthr@msu.edu
  • Phone: 432-3090
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 24
  • Isle Royale
  • JEAN BATTLE / JOHN ANDERTON / RANDY SCHAETZL
  • National Park Service, Northern Michigan Univ., and MSU Geography
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: jean_battle@nps.gov / janderto@nmu.edu / soils@msu.edu
  • Phone: 906-487-9080(Ext34) / 353-7726
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • Ch. 25
  • Between the Glaciers and Europeans: The People of Michigan from 12 000 to 400 Years Ago
  • BILL LOVIS
  • MSU Anthropoplogy and MSU Museum
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: lovis@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-3485
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Michigan Prehistory
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  • Ch. 26
  • Native Americans in Michigan
  • GEORGE CORNELL
  • MSU Native American Institute
  • Editor: Darden
  • Email: cornell@msu.edu
  • Phone: 353-6632
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Michigan Casinos

Indian Land Cessions
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  • Ch. 27
  • The settlement experience
  • ROGER ROSENTRETTER
  • MSU History
  • Editor: Darden
  • Email: rosentr2@msu.edu
  • Phone: 373-3704
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 28
  • The US Public Land Survey in Michigan
  • MORRIS THOMAS
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Darden
  • Email: thomas72@msu.edu
  • Phone: 353-1685
Outline: Available

Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Township and Range System
Township and Range Map 1
Township and Range Map 2
Original Military Districts
Townships Re-surveyed 1845-1856

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CONTEMPORARY LAND USE GEOGRAPHY

  • Ch. 29
  • Land use and land cover patterns
  • BILL WELSH / DANIEL BROWN / JOE MESSINA
  • EMU Geography & Geology / UM School of Natural Resources & Environment / MSU Geography
  • Editor: Darden
  • Email: wwelsh@emich.edu / danbrown@umich.edu / jpm@msu.edu
  • Phone: 734-487-7586 / 734-763-5803 / 353-1715
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
LULC Northwest Lower Peninsula
LULC Detroit
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  • Ch. 30
  • The Great Lakes' iron and steel industry
  • KEVIN PATRICK
  • Indiana University (PA) Geography and Planning
  • Editor: Darden
  • Email: KPatrick@iup.edu
  • Phone: 724-357-3767
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 31
  • The auto industry and the manufacturing sector
  • A.J. JACOBS
  • East Carolina Univ., Sociology
  • Editor: Darden
  • Email: drajjacobs@yahoo.com
  • Phone: 252-328-1076
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Major Manufacturing Centers
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  • Ch. 32
  • Urban settlements in MI, sprawl and the future
  • IGOR VOJNOVIC
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Darden
  • Email: vojnovic@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-7718
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 33
  • Race matters in Detroit
  • JOE DARDEN
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Darden
  • Email: jtdarden@msu.edu
  • Phone: 432-1843
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Cities in Metro Detroit
Detroit Percent Black 1970
Detroit Percent Black 1980
Detroit Percent Black 1990
Detroit Percent Black 2000
Detroit Percent Asian 2000
Detroit Percent Hispanic 2000
Detroit Percent Mixed 2000
Detroit Percent Native American 2000
Detroit Percent White 2000
Detroit Concentrated Affluence 1999
Detroit Concentrated Poverty 1999
Trends in Detroit Segregation
Residential Segregation by Minority Group in Detroit
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  • Ch. 34
  • Migration, demographics, ethnicity
  • DICK GROOP
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Darden
  • Email: groop@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-4651
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 35
  • Tourism/recreation
  • SARAH NICHOLLS
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Darden
  • Email: nicho210@msu.edu
  • Phone: 353-5190
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 36
  • Agriculture: field crops
  • DON CHRISTENSON / DARRYL WARNCKE
  • MSU Crop and Soil Sciences
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: christ10@msu.edu / warncke@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-0271(Ext1255) / 355-0271(Ext1270)
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics
Corn Acreage
Dry Edible Bean Acreage
Potato Acreage
Soybean Acreage
Sugarbeet Acreage
Wheat Acreage
Trends in Crop Production
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  • Ch. 37
  • Agriculture: speciality crops
  • DARRYL WARNCKE / DON CHRISTENSON
  • MSU Crop and Soil Sciences
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: warncke@msu.edu / christ10@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-0271(Ext1270)/ 355-0271(Ext1255)
Outline: Unavailable

Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Vegetable Production
Vegetable Fresh Market Production
Top Vegetable Producers
Major Michigan Sod Farms
Agricultural Statistics Districts

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  • Ch. 38
  • Agriculture: fruit
  • JERRY HULL / JEFF ANDRESEN
  • MSU Horticulture / MSU Geography
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: jhull@msu.edu / andresen@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-5191(Ext1421) / 355-0231
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 39
  • Agriculture: grapes and wine
  • TOM ZABADAL
  • SW Michigan Research and Extension - MSU
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: zabadal@msu.edu
  • Phone: 269-944-1477 x206
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
Vineyards
Wineries
Effects of Topography on Minimum Air Temperatures
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  • Ch. 40
  • Forests and forestry from an historical perspective
  • DON DICKMANN
  • MSU Forestry
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: dickman1@msu.edu
  • Phone: 353-5199
Outline: Available
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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  • Ch. 41
  • Lumbering and wood products from an economic perspective
  • LARRY LEEFERS
  • MSU Forestry
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: leefers@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-0097
Outline: Unavailable
Maps, Figures, and Graphics: Unavailable
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APPENDIX

  • Thematic maps and place names
  • DICK GROOP / MARK FINN
  • MSU Geography
  • Editor: Schaetzl
  • Email: groop@msu.edu / finnmar1@msu.edu
  • Phone: 355-4651 / NA
Maps, Figures, and Graphics:
AVAILABLE
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