Arcuate end moraines, McNeeley Drift, Sourdough Mountains, Yakima Park, Pierce County, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. 1964.
Dates
Date Taken
1964
Summary
Album Caption: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. These arcuate end moraines of a former small cirque glacier are the type locality of the McNeeley Drift. The cirque is on the north slope of the Sourdough Mountains seven-tenths of a kilometer south of McNeeley Peak and almost directly north of the Sunrise Visitor Center at Yakima Park. Pumice layer R, which is more than 8,750 years old, overlies the outermost McNeeley moraine at this locality. Circa 1964. Pierce County, Washington. Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 847, figure 23. 1974.
Summary
Album Caption: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.
These arcuate end moraines of a former small cirque glacier are the type locality of the McNeeley Drift. The cirque is on the north slope of the Sourdough Mountains seven-tenths of a kilometer south of McNeeley Peak and almost directly north of the Sunrise Visitor Center at Yakima Park. Pumice layer R, which is more than 8,750 years old, overlies the outermost McNeeley moraine at this locality. Circa 1964.
Pierce County, Washington.
Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 847, figure 23. 1974.
Image located in U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library, Crandell, D.R. Collection album, no.152.
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