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Imperial Fault. Imperial Valley, California Earthquake. 1979.

Dates

Date Taken
1979

Summary

Imperial Valley, California, Earthquake October 15, 1979. Imperial Fault at Interstate Highway 8 site 15 (location shown on Plate 1, Professional paper 1254). The main fault trace, marked by offset rows of asparagus in the foreground, dies out southeastward in the field beyond the highway. The subsidiary branching fault that crosses this field northwestward to the highway probably joins the main fault near the palms in the foreground. View is southeast. Photo by M.J. Rymer, December 12, 1979. Figure 91, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1254.

Contacts

Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Rymer, M.J.

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name photoLibrary jce00007
number photoLibrary 19925
batch photoLibrary batch86
number_in_book photoLibrary 7

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