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Death Valley National Park, California. Tubular orifices in the fine sediments at Salt Springs near the north side of Borax Camp allow discharge of water to the valley floor. Light areas are accumulations of salts from previous discharges. Circa 1960. Figure 10, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 494-B.
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Guatemala Earthquake 1976. Typical appearance of the Motagua fault rupture that caused the destructive earthquake. Earthquake Information Bulletin, v. 8, no. 3., p. 7.
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Burma Earthquake July 8, 1975. Destroyed temples at Pagan. Earthquake Information Bulletin, v. 7, no. 5., p. 20.
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Turkey Earthquake September 6, 1975. A high school building in Lice with structural damage after the earthquake. Photo by P.I. Yanev. Earthquake Information Bulletin, v. 8, no. 2, back cover.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Devils Kitchen, looking north from a ridge in the middle of No Thoroughfare Canyon. An erosional remnant of the Wingate Sandstone capped by the lowermost sandstone of the Kayenta Formation. Photograph by T.F. Giles, December 15, 1978. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508. Figure 57.
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North Cascades National Park, Washington. Glaciers at the head of Luna Creek in Picket Range. This complex of ice patches illustrates the difficulty of counting and classifying individual glaciers. A glacier fed by ice avalanches ends in Luna Lake on the left. Avalanches from the large irregular hanging glacier that clings to the cliffs feed the debris-covered ice upslope from another lake (foreground, right center). A small ice patch fed by snow avalanches lies at the base of the cliffs in right center. September 27, 1960. Plate 3-D, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 705-A. 1971.
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Brecciated Ordovician (?) quartzite in basaltic fanglomerate at the north end of Artist Drive Hills near Mushroom Rock. Death Valley National Park, California. 1938.
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Tepee buttes, Arkansas Valley. Eastern Colorado. 1894. Photo by F.P. Gulliver
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Radiating intergrowths of quartz (white) and ferruginous rhodochrosite (gray) with small patches of finely divided sulphides (black); photomicrograph (ordinary light) of this thin section of ore from 1000-foot level, Belmont vein. Nye County, Nevada. 1915. Plate 6- A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 104. 1918.
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Album caption: Duchess of Bedford, in winter quarters, Flaxman Island, Alaska. Index card: Different views of the "Duchess of Bedford" in winter quarters. Canning district, Northern Alaska region, Alaska. ca. 1910.
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Album caption: Flathead Co, Mont. Index card: Aerial view of Boundary Mountain-avalanche tracks visible. Glacier National Park. Flathead County, Montana. July 3, 1979.
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Turkey Earthquake September 6, 1975. Police building in Lice. The lower story is very severely damaged, while the second story is less damaged. Photo by P.I. Yanev. Page 5, Earthquake Information Bulletin.v.8, no.2.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Ladder Creek Monocline and Redlands Fault. View is northwest from a point near Little Park Road east of the monument. No Thoroughfare Canyon in the foreground, which is bordered on the left by northeastward-dipping beds of Wingate Sandstone at the northwest end of Ladder Creek Monocline. Old Serpents Trail, the lower part of which is barely visible, ascends this dipping block of rock. The dark Proterozoic rocks form the flat-topped bluff on the right and are exposed by the Redlands Fault which lies just above the sharply upturned remnants of the Wingate Sandstone. 1976. Figure 29, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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Characteristic exposure of the Dakota group in the Denver area, looking north in Dutch Creek gap. Us upper sandstone subunit; K, Kassler sandstone member; and P, Plainview sandstone member of South Platte formation. D, disconformity between Lytle (L) and South Platte formations, U, approximate Morrison-Lytle contact. Indian Hills quadrangle. Jefferson County, Colorado, ca. 1951. Published as figure 18 in U, S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 274-B. 1955.
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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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Isle Royale National Park, Michigan. Monument Rock, a stack associated with the shoreline of postglacial Lake Minong. Photo by T. Haas, U.S. National Park Service, circa 1971. Figure 17, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 754-A; Figure 67, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1309.
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Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Mouth of the Colorado Canyon. 1904. Plate 7-B, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 352.
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View toward the Carnegie Institution Marine Biological Laboratory aquarium and wharf, showing the amount of retreat of the beach line during the October 1910 storm. The line formerly extended seaward on the piles that support the aquarium. Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida. June 1911.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia. Potomac River Gap in Blue Ridge at Harpers Ferry, viewed from Keeptryst. White Weverton quartzite cliffs across the river.
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Glacier National Park, Montana. Boulder Glacier and the cirque wall at the head of Bowman Valley, viewed from the east wall of the cirque above Hole-in- the-Wall Falls. Boulder Glacier with Kintla Peak towering back of it on the extreme left (photo awc00699). Boundary Mountain in the center (photo awc00698). Great cirque wall above North Lake on the right (photo awc00697). August 4, 1913. Plate 12-B, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 600. Photos awc00697, awc00698, awc00699 form a panorama. Handwritten notes on album caption: Montana.


map background search result map search result map Panorama view southwest across cirque at head of Bowman Creek to Boulder Glacier and Kintla peak. Glacier National Park, Montana.1913. Radiating intergrowths of quartz (white) and ferruginous rhodochrosite (gray) with small patches of finely divided sulphides (black); photomicrograph (ordinary light) of this thin section of ore from 1000-foot level, Belmont vein.  Nye County, Nevada. 1915. Avalanche tracks visible on Boundary Mountain. Glacier National Park, Montana. 1979. Burma Earthquake. Destroyed temples at Pagan. Burma. 1975. Police building in Lice, Turkey Earthquake. Lice, Turkey. 1975. Turkey Earthquake September 6, 1975. A high school building in Lice with structural damage after the earthquake. Guatemala Earthquake 1976. Typical appearance of the Motagua fault rupture that caused the destructive earthquake. Tepee buttes, Arkansas Valley. Eastern Colorado. 1894. Monument Rock, a stack associated with the shoreline of postglacial Lake Minong. Isle Royale National Park, Michigan. 1971. Death Valley National Park, California. Tubular orifices in the fine sediments at Salt Springs near the north side of Borax Camp allow discharge of water to the valley floor.  Circa 1960. Mouth of the Colorado Canyon. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. 1904. Duchess of Bedford. Canning district, Northern Alaska region, Alaska, circa 1910. Ladder Creek Monocline and Redlands Fault. Colorado National Monument, Colorado. 1976. Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Devils Kitchen, looking north from a ridge in the middle of No Thoroughfare Canyon. 1978. Glaciers at the head of Luna Creek in Picket Range. North Cascades National Park, Washington. 1960. Potomac River Gap in Blue Ridge at Harpers Ferry, viewed from Keeptryst. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia. No date. Brecciated Ordovician (?) quartzite in basaltic fanglomerate. Death Valley National Park, California. 1938. View toward the Carnegie Institution Marine Biological Laboratory. Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida. 1911. Characteristic exposure of the Dakota group in the Denver area. Jefferson County, Colorado. 1951. Flow failure down a hillside slope on the Nunez Ranch, east of Half Moon Bay. San Mateo County, California. 1906. Ladder Creek Monocline and Redlands Fault. Colorado National Monument, Colorado. 1976. Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Devils Kitchen, looking north from a ridge in the middle of No Thoroughfare Canyon. 1978. Monument Rock, a stack associated with the shoreline of postglacial Lake Minong. Isle Royale National Park, Michigan. 1971. View toward the Carnegie Institution Marine Biological Laboratory. Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida. 1911. Mouth of the Colorado Canyon. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. 1904. Glaciers at the head of Luna Creek in Picket Range. North Cascades National Park, Washington. 1960. Panorama view southwest across cirque at head of Bowman Creek to Boulder Glacier and Kintla peak. Glacier National Park, Montana.1913. Avalanche tracks visible on Boundary Mountain. Glacier National Park, Montana. 1979. Potomac River Gap in Blue Ridge at Harpers Ferry, viewed from Keeptryst. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia. No date. Death Valley National Park, California. Tubular orifices in the fine sediments at Salt Springs near the north side of Borax Camp allow discharge of water to the valley floor.  Circa 1960. Brecciated Ordovician (?) quartzite in basaltic fanglomerate. Death Valley National Park, California. 1938. Radiating intergrowths of quartz (white) and ferruginous rhodochrosite (gray) with small patches of finely divided sulphides (black); photomicrograph (ordinary light) of this thin section of ore from 1000-foot level, Belmont vein.  Nye County, Nevada. 1915. Guatemala Earthquake 1976. Typical appearance of the Motagua fault rupture that caused the destructive earthquake. Tepee buttes, Arkansas Valley. Eastern Colorado. 1894. Police building in Lice, Turkey Earthquake. Lice, Turkey. 1975. Turkey Earthquake September 6, 1975. A high school building in Lice with structural damage after the earthquake. Burma Earthquake. Destroyed temples at Pagan. Burma. 1975. Duchess of Bedford. Canning district, Northern Alaska region, Alaska, circa 1910.