Looking west along highway 287 along the north shore of Hebgen Lake at the easternmost of four places where the road fell into the lake. Hebgen Lake, Montana Earthquake. 1959.
Dates
Date Taken
1959-08-21
Summary
Typed information on back of photograph: (Hall) 8/21/59. Looking west along highway 287 along the north shore of Hebgen Lake at the easternmost of 4 places where the road fell into the lake due to quake-triggered slumps of unconsolidated material along the lake shore. The fault scarps here are higher on the hill in the trees. The material in the right foreground was pushed there by road machines making the emergency road around this slump. This road can be seen joining the highway.
Summary
Typed information on back of photograph: (Hall) 8/21/59. Looking west along highway 287 along the north shore of Hebgen Lake at the easternmost of 4 places where the road fell into the lake due to quake-triggered slumps of unconsolidated material along the lake shore. The fault scarps here are higher on the hill in the trees. The material in the right foreground was pushed there by road machines making the emergency road around this slump. This road can be seen joining the highway.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Library Photographic Collection, 2011 DENPH0014, Menlo Park Collection, Box 5, No. 69/Hebgen Lake, Montana Earthquake, Folder 1 (Hall, W.B.).
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