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Remnants of the Fifes Peak Formationon. Unicorn Peak. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. Circa 1959.

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1959

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Remnants of the Fifes Peak Formation, 1,000 feet thick, on Unicorn Peak. Lava flows forming the cliffs alternate with less resistant volcanic sedimentary rocks. These nearly flat strata lie in the broad trough of the Unicorn Peak syncline. Rocks of the Stevens Ridge Formation lie in the foreground. Mount Rainer National Park, Washington. ca. 1959. Figure 24, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 444.

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Fiske, Richard S.
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U.S. Geological Survey

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