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View showing the general appearance of the Madison slide. Madison County, Montana. 1959.

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Date Taken
1959

Summary

Album caption and index card: Hebgen Lake earthquake. This photograph, along with photograph nos. 97 (wij00097) and 98 (wij00098), is part of a broad panorama taken to show the general appearance of the Madison slide. The source area of the slide are steeply dipping schist beds shown along the crest. Part of the slide, covered by trees and soil, shows in the lower lefthand corner of the photograph. Along the right center of the photograph are remnants of the dolomite buttress. Madison County, Montana. August 1959.

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Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Witkind, Irving J.

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Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Witkind, I.J. Collection.

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