Pinedale terminal moraines along Couger Creek and the Madison River. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1954.
Dates
Date Taken
1954
Summary
Album caption: History and Dynamics of Glaciation in the Northern Yellowstone National Park. Pinedale terminal moraines along Couger Creek and the Madison River. As shown in figure 10 (locs. 8 and 9), a thin soil with litle or no loess is present on the Pinedale moraines, PM. Arrows, ice flow direction. Note glacial-scour features indicating Pinedale flow to the southwest, oblique to Couger Creek. Outwash channel, OC, is bracketed by single-barb arrows and extends southwestward from Pinedale moraine. BM, large meadow area, Bull Lake ground moraine and kame gravels mantled by loess. Along Madison River Pinedale terminal moraines are locally breached by melt-water channels that extend for at least 3 km west of the moraines. Stereo-aerial [...]
Summary
Album caption: History and Dynamics of Glaciation in the Northern Yellowstone National Park. Pinedale terminal moraines along Couger Creek and the Madison River. As shown in figure 10 (locs. 8 and 9), a thin soil with litle or no loess is present on the Pinedale moraines, PM. Arrows, ice flow direction. Note glacial-scour features indicating Pinedale flow to the southwest, oblique to Couger Creek. Outwash channel, OC, is bracketed by single-barb arrows and extends southwestward from Pinedale moraine. BM, large meadow area, Bull Lake ground moraine and kame gravels mantled by loess. Along Madison River Pinedale terminal moraines are locally breached by melt-water channels that extend for at least 3 km west of the moraines. Stereo-aerial photographs by AMS, 1954. Wyoming, ca. 1968.
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Published as Figure 33 in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 729-F. 1979.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Pierce, K.L. Collection.
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