Kintla Peak and Agassiz Glacier. Glacier National Park, Montana. 1913.
Dates
Date Taken
1913-08-05
Summary
Album caption and index card: Glacier National Park, Montana. Kintla Peak (10100 A.T.) and Agassiz Glacier seen from northeast from a point about 1 mile north of Pocket Lake. The narrow tongue of the glacier is cascading and much crevassed. There is a fine terminal moraine a short distance in front of the ice margin of the tongue and along the margin to the right. The peak is of Kintla argillite. August 5, 1913. Glacier latitude: 48.935345 Glacier longitude: -114.162043 FYI: lat/longs may be pasted to the search bar in Google Earth to find the location. Handwritten notes on album caption: Montana.
Summary
Album caption and index card: Glacier National Park, Montana. Kintla Peak (10100 A.T.) and Agassiz Glacier seen from northeast from a point about 1 mile north of Pocket Lake. The narrow tongue of the glacier is cascading and much crevassed. There is a fine terminal moraine a short distance in front of the ice margin of the tongue and along the margin to the right. The peak is of Kintla argillite. August 5, 1913.
Glacier latitude: 48.935345
Glacier longitude: -114.162043 FYI:lat/longs may be pasted to the search bar in Google Earth to find the location.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Alden, W.C. Collection.
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