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Album caption: Flow failure down a hillside slope on the Nunez Ranch 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Half Moon Bay. Note the man standing at the base of the deposited debris and a second man standing on the lower edge of the cavity at the top of the slide. Additional incipient flow failures with much smaller movements also occurred on the convex hill to the left of the principal landslide. Photograph previously published in Lawson and others (1908, pl. 133B) with caption "Earth-flow 4 miles east of Half Moon Bay." San Mateo County, California. 1906. Published as figure 22 in U. S. Geological Survey Professional paper 993. 1978. (Not available from U.S.G.S. Photo Library. Photograph by R. A. Anderson, J.C. Branner...
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Album caption: Blackfeet Indian Reservation. "Quartzite gravel," possibly pre- Wisconsin glacial drift, west end of top of Landslide Butte, NW1/4, Sec. 3, T. 36 N., R. 8 W. Part indicated by hammer has a clay matrix and resembles glacial till. No striated pebbles found. Blackfoot quadrangle. Glacier County, Montana. September 5, 1912.
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Album caption: Cape Fortunes (False Cape) landslide, one of the largest landslides triggered by the 1906 shock. View toward toe showing extension of toe into Pacific Ocean in background. Similar photograph previously published by Lawson and others (1908, pl. 127B) with caption "Earth-slump at Cape Fortunas, Humboldt County." Humboldt County, California. 1906. Published as figure 67-B in U. S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 993. 1978. (Not available from U. S. G. S. Photo Library. Photograph by A.S. Eakle, courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.)
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Landslide near Uintah. Weber County, Utah. no date. (Panorama with photo no. 3484). Published as plate 17-A in U.S. Geologocal Survey Professional Paper 153. 1928. See Woolley, Photo No. wrr00330. (now-then27).
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Glacier National Park, Montana. Valley of Kennedy Creek, glacial stream terrace, landslide slope, and Algonkian peak of Yellow Mountain. July 16, 1901.
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Gros Ventre Landslide, Wyoming. June 23, 1925. U.S. Forest Service plaque in the foreground. Wyoming. August 1963.
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Album caption: Cape Fortunas (False Cape) landslide, one of the largest landslides triggered by the 1906 shock. View toward scarp. Similar photograph previously published by Lawson and others (1908, pl. 127A) with caption "Earth-slump at Cape Fortunas, Humboldt County." Humboldt County, California. 1906. Published as figure 67-A in U. S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 993. 1978. Photograph by A. S. Eakle, courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Album caption: CA, San Francisco. 6/1/79 landslide. Index card: House on Oak Park Drive in San Francisco damaged by landsliding. House is on the toe of the slide, and the major part of the landslide is out of view to the right. People and machinery for scale. City and County of San Francisco, California. June 1, 1979. (Photo by E.E. Brabb) Published as the upper photograph on page B58 in U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1240-B (1981).
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Landslides near Ogden. Wasatch Range and Ogden Canyon in distance. The formation is a delta built by Ogden River in Lake Bonneville and since divided by the river. Weber County, Utah. no date.
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Gros Ventre Landslide, Wyoming. June 23, 1925. South side of the landslide northeast of Jackson, Wyoming. August 1963.
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Kalapana earthquake of November 29, 1975. Ground cracking and landslides in the back part of the overlook area at Puhimau Crater. The overlook area slumped completely into the crater, leaving the guardrail projecting into space. 1975. Figure 20-A, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 740.
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Album caption: Red-brown, thoroughly weathered residual Illinois till 2-3 feet, over buff, highly calcareous till 0-3 feet, over rotten yellow Galena limestone 5-8 feet. Scott Township., Sec. 7. One mile north of Stillman Valley, Ill. In center of hollow 2.5 x 6 feet in top of Galena limestone is filled with gray gravelly till, gray sand and gravel fills cavities and cracks in the limestone. In places the red-brown weathering goes clear down through the buff till and into cavities in top of Galena limestone. Dark red residual clay in some cavities in the limestone. Limestone pebbles entirely dissolved out of the red till. Ogle County, Illinois. July 1, 1908. Handwritten note on album caption: No. 389. Kings quadrangle.
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Landslide beds of White River formation north of Slim Buttes, thickness of beds included in the slide about 125 feet. Harding County, South Dakota. 1911. Plate 3-B in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 627. 1916.
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The magnitude 6.6 earthquake on November 16, 1983, caused a landslide of sections of the north rim into Kilauea caldera. Tension cracks ate at the top of the landslide. View is to the east from the northeast rim of the caldera. Page 898, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1350.
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Landslide beds of White River formation north of Slim Buttes, thickness of beds included in the slide about 125 feet. Harding County, South Dakota. 1911. Plate 3-B in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 627. 1916.
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Album caption: Hillside landslide in redwood forest about 4 miles (6.4 km) above Alma, landslide has dammed Los Gatos Creek from the south. Santa Clara County, California. 1906. Published as figure 18 in U. S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 993. 1978. (Not available from U.S.G.S Photo Library. Photograph by J. C. Branner, courtesy of Stanford University Archives.)
map background search result map search result map Red-brown, thoroughly weathered residual Illinois till 2-3 feet, over buff, highly calcareous till 0-3 feet, over rotten yellow Galena limestone 5-8 feet. Illinois, 1908. "Quartzite gravel," possibly pre- Wisconsin glacial drift, west end of top of Landslide Butte. Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Montana.1912. Landslide near Uintah. Weber County, Utah. no date. Landslides near Ogden. Wasatch Range and Ogden Canyon in distance. Weber County, Utah. no date. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The magnitude 6.6 earthquake on November 16, 1983, caused a landslide of sections of the north rim into Kilauea caldera. "Quake Lake" formed by the earthquake landslide. Hebgen Lake earthquake, Madison Canyon, Montana. 1959. Landslide(?) damage to lower Van Norman Dam. San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. 1971. Landslide and other damage at lower Van Norman Dam. San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. 1971. Landslide-broken road at Hebgen Lake. Hebgen Lake, Gallatin County, Montana Earthquake. 1959. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Kalapana earthquake of November 29, 1975. Ground cracking and landslides in the back part of the overlook area at Puhimau Crater. House damaged by landsliding. City and County of San Francisco, California. 1979. Gros Ventre Landslide, Wyoming.1963. Gros Ventre Landslide, Wyoming. 1963. Valley of Kennedy Creek. Glacier National Park, Montana. 1901. Landslide beds of White River formation north of Slim Buttes, thickness of beds included in the slide about 125 feet. Harding County, South Dakota. 1911. Landslide beds of White River formation north of Slim Buttes, thickness of beds included in the slide about 125 feet. Harding County, South Dakota. 1911. Hillside landslide in redwood forest about 4 miles (6.4 km) above Alma, Santa Clara County, California. 1906. Flow failure down a hillside slope on the Nunez Ranch, east of Half Moon Bay. San Mateo County, California. 1906. Cape Fortunas (False Cape) landslide, Humboldt County, California. 1906. Cape Fortunes (False Cape) landslide, Humboldt County, California. 1906. Landslide(?) damage to lower Van Norman Dam. San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. 1971. Landslide and other damage at lower Van Norman Dam. San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. 1971. House damaged by landsliding. City and County of San Francisco, California. 1979. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The magnitude 6.6 earthquake on November 16, 1983, caused a landslide of sections of the north rim into Kilauea caldera. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Kalapana earthquake of November 29, 1975. Ground cracking and landslides in the back part of the overlook area at Puhimau Crater. Red-brown, thoroughly weathered residual Illinois till 2-3 feet, over buff, highly calcareous till 0-3 feet, over rotten yellow Galena limestone 5-8 feet. Illinois, 1908. Flow failure down a hillside slope on the Nunez Ranch, east of Half Moon Bay. San Mateo County, California. 1906. Landslide near Uintah. Weber County, Utah. no date. Landslides near Ogden. Wasatch Range and Ogden Canyon in distance. Weber County, Utah. no date. Hillside landslide in redwood forest about 4 miles (6.4 km) above Alma, Santa Clara County, California. 1906. Landslide beds of White River formation north of Slim Buttes, thickness of beds included in the slide about 125 feet. Harding County, South Dakota. 1911. Landslide beds of White River formation north of Slim Buttes, thickness of beds included in the slide about 125 feet. Harding County, South Dakota. 1911. Valley of Kennedy Creek. Glacier National Park, Montana. 1901. Cape Fortunas (False Cape) landslide, Humboldt County, California. 1906. Cape Fortunes (False Cape) landslide, Humboldt County, California. 1906. Landslide-broken road at Hebgen Lake. Hebgen Lake, Gallatin County, Montana Earthquake. 1959. Gros Ventre Landslide, Wyoming.1963. Gros Ventre Landslide, Wyoming. 1963. "Quartzite gravel," possibly pre- Wisconsin glacial drift, west end of top of Landslide Butte. Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Montana.1912. "Quake Lake" formed by the earthquake landslide. Hebgen Lake earthquake, Madison Canyon, Montana. 1959.