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Avalanche deposit, Tahoma Glacier, Mount Rainier National Park, Pierce County, Washington. 1964.

Summary

Album Caption: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. Avalanche deposit at and on the terminus of Tahoma Glacier. Parts of the avalanche debris are a sticky yellow clay which is the product of hydrothermal alteration of rock within the volcano. The alteration evidently occurred in an old conduit of the volcano which is now exposed in cross section in the cliffs immediately left of the area where Tahoma Glacier spills down from the summit snowfields. The ice face in the center foreground is about 150 feet high. Pierce County, Washington. Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 677, figure 5. 1971.

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Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Crandell, Dwight Raymond

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Image located in U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library, Crandell, D.R. Collection album, Volume 2, no.178.

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name photoLibrary cdr00178
number photoLibrary 8182
batch photoLibrary batch71
number_in_book photoLibrary 178

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