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Witkind, Irving J.

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Album caption and index card: Hebgen Lake earthquake. General overall view of the Madison slide. In the lower left corner is Earthquake Lake. The main mass of the slide is show in the center of the photograph with the dolomite debris showing in the right center. The steeply dipping schist beds are shown along the crestline and in the right center of the photograph are the remnants of the dolomite buttress. Madison County, Montana. August 1959.
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Album caption and index card: Hebgen Lake earthquake. Group of subsidiary fault scarps formed along the south flank of Hebgen Ridge. Gallatin County, Montana. August 1959. Published as figure 28 in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 435. 1964.
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Album caption and index card: Hebgen Lake earthquake. Trace of Red Canyon fault scarp near the Blarneystone Ranch. Jeep is sitting on the edge of the road. Other edge of road is on the downthrown block just below the jeep's nose. Note subsidiary fractures in subsidence zone. This is the road I drove down the night of the earthquake. I happened to see the fault scarp and stopped the jeep in time. Elsewhere people drove over the fault scarp and damaged their cars. Gallatin County, Montana. August 1959.
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Album caption and index card: Hebgen Lake earthquake. View of Red Canyon fault scarp along the south flank of Kirkwood Ridge. Photograph taken August 18 from an army helicopter. Verical beds are of Madison group. Gallatin County, Montana. August 1959.
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Album caption and index card: Hebgen Lake earthquake. Road slip and submergence of former Highway 287 just northwest of Kirkwood Ranch. The present highway curves up the hill shown on the right in this particular photograph. The small object floating in the embayment is an abandoned boat dock. This photograph was taken on the morning of August 18. Gallatin County, Montana. 1959. Published as figure 2-B in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 435. 1964.
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