Geological mapping, etc is fine (and for the others).


(eg: for examples of respectable use)

Bristol University
"BSc Honours in Geology

The programme....There is a one-week introductory
geological mapping field class in the summer preceding the second year and a week's field excursion at Easter."
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/prospectus/undergraduate/2004/secti...

Environmental Change Research Centre (UCL)

"Research Facilities

The Centre has an extensive range of field equipment for lake sediment coring, sediment sampling and mapping, and for limnological and bathymetric survey of lakes and reservoirs."
http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/mscdegree.html






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(UNIVERSITY OF LONDON MSc Degree in QUATERNARY SCIENCE)

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\"(P)Geological Mapping in the Llandeilo area
David Green BA FGS
The weekend course will focus on the geology of a small area of igneous and fossiliferous sedimentary rocks, exposed in a variety of natural and man-made outcrops on an upland sheep and cattle farm. The task will be to map the position and the structure of the various rock units on a base map, and from this data interpret the geology of the unexposed parts of the area, and its geological structure and history.
A weekend field course from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm on Saturday and Sunday 2 and 3 October 2004.
4 Credits at level 0
Fee £40.00\"
http://www.bris.ac.uk/cms/ppo/credit-courses/geology.html


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also useful
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/Studland-Tertiary.htm

British Library
http://www.bl.uk/collections/map_os.html
\"Ordnance Survey Mapping
Introduction
The Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency of Great Britain. The Map Library holds the most comprehensive, publicly accessible collection of Ordnance Survey maps in the world.\"

Nice picture of soil mapping (related subject)
http://syllabus.syr.edu/esf/rdbriggs/for345/sli08_04.htm

Mapping and Cartography are both names for mapmaking.
Mapping can also be other types of plotting out which aren\'t mapmaking(don\'t forget that a lot of map making is a matter of plotting survey results).
The ambiguity doesn\'t matter - I believe mapping fits them all, is used for them all (at least sometimes, if not more) and will be understood and thought natural by Geology diploma readers.