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Boulder weighing 1700 pounds, near Shoup Bay, relocated by 1964 Alaska earthquake. Valdez district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. circa 1960s.

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Album caption: Boulder estimated to weigh 1,700 pounds thrown up 88 feet above the shoreline by a local wave at the place near Shoup Bay. Valdez district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. n.d. (Photo by G. Plafker) Published as figure 4 in the U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 542-G. 1969.

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U.S. Geological Survey
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Plafker, George

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Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Alaska Earthquake 3 subject album.

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