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Dunes on the northeast side of the shore west of the breakwater in Provincetown. Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts. August 30, 1916.
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San Fernando Earthquake. February 1971. Fence that spans part of the shear zone was shoved out over curb, view to northwest along southwest side of Bromont, this photo is nearly across the street from the house in Photo wreb0525 and both are about 100 feet southeast of the displaced curb in Photo wreb0524. Feb 11, 1970.
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Album caption and index card: Tower Mountain, opposite Howardsville, Bakers Park. Upon its nearby perpendicular fact of 3,000 feet are exposed a number of quartz veins, traversing its whole length. The one cutting down diagonally from the left is the Mammoth lode. Most of the others are claimed as mineral-bearing veins. San Juan County, Colorado. 1874. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 69, No. 139: Tower Mountain, opposite Howardsville, Bakers Park. Upon its nearby perpendicular fact of 3,000 feet are exposed a number of quartz veins, traversing its whole length. The one cutting...
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Album caption and index card: Gold mining in Borens Gluch. La Plata County, Colorado. 1875. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1875 Series, page 78, No.272: Gold-mining in Boren's Gulch. Note: 02/07/2017 - verfied with NARA Still Picture Branch that this photograph's orientation is correct.
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Album caption and index card: Independence Rock. A noted landmark, on the Oregon Trail, for travelers at the time when this route was used. Its base, bordering the old road, is literally covered with names and dates, many of the former well known in the history of the west, and some of them antedating Fremont's time. The Sweetwater flows immediately along the southern end of it, although on the opposite side of the stream another ridge, continuing toward the southwest, was once connected with it. It is a vast and excellent illustration of disintegration, its rounded form resembling an oblong haystack, with layers of rock lapping over the top and sides of the mass. Thin layers have been broken off in part, and huge...
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Panorama with images 846 and 847. C.M. & St. P. Railway cut, two miles northwest of Dedham, showing (north side): 1. Buff loess - 5-10 feet; 2. Gray loess with shells, calcium-carbonate concretions and iron oxide pipes - 5-8 feet; 3. Dense brown leached till (Kansan?) - 5-6 feet; 4. Buff calcareous till (Kansan?) - 45-50 feet; 5. Gray calcareous till (Kansan?) 0-10 feet (seams are filled with plates of selenite crystals). Newton Township, SW1/4, Sec. 7. Carroll County, Iowa. June 10, 1915.
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Provo River terraces south of Kansas, view southeast. Upper terrace or broad gravel plain of Rhodes Valley (Kansas Prairie) at left. At right and 150 feet below is lower terrace. Ts. 2 and 3 S., R. 6 E. Coalville quadrangle. Summit County, Utah. June 11, 1926.
Categories: Image; Tags: Utah Images, photo print
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Ohio. Ripple marks on sandstone near Berea. Circa 1870.
Categories: Image; Tags: Ohio, photo print
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Long Beach, California, Earthquake March 10, 1933. Marti's store, Long Beach California. Column failure, first story, third column from the street. Photo from H.M. Engle.
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Interformational conglomerate, Upper Cambrian, below Highgate Falls. Franklin County. Vermont. 1896.
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Fault relations along northeast flank of the Valley Mountains. View looking eastward showing the downthrown Green River beds juxtaposed against the overturned Indianola conglomerate beds. Geologist in foreground for scale. Exposure is in the W1/2, Sec. 7, T. 17 S., R. 1 W. Juab County, Utah. Spring 1982. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1528, Figure 29-b.
Categories: Image; Tags: Utah Images, photo print
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Album caption: Hebgen Dam spillway. Shows damage by massive land slump,increased by flood water during quake. Montana earthquake area. Gallatin County, Montana. August 1959. (Aerial view). Index card unavailable.
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Album caption: Camp of the miners of the North Star and Mountaineer lodes, on King Solomon Mountain, above Cunningham Gulch. San Juan County, Colorado. 1875. Notes on album caption: None. Index card: Jackson, W. H. 566 - Camp of the miners of the North Star and Mountaineer lodes, on King Solomon Mountain, above Cunningham Gulch. San Juan County, Colorado. 1875. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1875 Series, page 77, No. 252: Camp of the Miners of the North Star and Mountaineer lodes, on King Solomon Mountain, above Cunningham Gulch.
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Album caption: Angel Terrace near Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Oct. 1897. Index card: Stalactites at Angel Terrace. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1897.
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View east of Fairview Peak, Crazy Mountains, looking along the south lateral moraine of the former Swamp Creek glacier, in foreground, to the dissected bench lands. Livingston quadrangle. Sweet Grass County, Montana. September 1, 1921.
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Shoshone Indian Reservation. Terminal moraine of North Fork Glacier, Wind River Mountains (in middle-ground). Seven miles west of Fort Washakie. Moraine 300-400 feet high. Fremont County, Wyoming. August 2, 1924.
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(This photograph is on the website created before FY-04!!) Tongues of diorite porphyry extending upward into calcareous beds, metamorphosing, shattering and mineralizing them, on 1,100 foot level, McCormick crosscut Silver King mine, looking southeast. Summit County, Utah. Circa 1904.
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Guatemala Earthquake 1976. Westward along the Motagua fault trace in the lower Motagua Valley. The trace here is marked by the dark line of fissures extending from the creek in the foreground through the giant ceiba (balsam) tree trunk and then along a prominent north facing scarp in the background. The tree was split and toppled by fault movement of at least 72 centimeters sinistral and 37 centimeters down to the north displacement. The vegetation- covered north facing scarp behind the tree, which is 5 meters high, was probably formed by many repeated earlier movements along this same trace. 1976. Slide 18, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-165.
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Form a panorama from 2,172 foot hill southwest of Black Mountain. Extreme left is west; shows pediment and alluvial slope in foreground, hill of Cardigan gneiss and Daniels conglomerate overlain by Batamote andesite in middle ground, Growler Mountains on sky line at left. Butte in left center is of Batamote andesite. Pinnacles in left center are Ajo Peaks, with the main mass of the Little Ajos on the sky line to their right. Black Mountain on right center. The ragged hills in the foreground leading toward Black Mountain are of Childs latite. Valley of the Ajo on right: Pozo Redondo Mountains at extreme right. Pima County, Arizona. 1932. Plate 2-A, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 209. 1946.


map background search result map search result map Independence Rock. Natrona County, Wyoming. 1870. Treasure Mountain in Elk Mountains, and view down the canyon of Rock Creek. Gunnison County, Colorado. 1873. Tower Mountain, opposite Howardsville, Bakers Park. San Juan County, Colorado. 1874. Gold mining, Borens Gulch, La Plata County, Colorado. 1875. Camp of the miners of the North Star and Mountaineer lodes, on King Solomon Mountain. San Juan County, Colorado. 1875. Hebgen Dam spillway. Gallatin County, Montana. 1959. Dunes in Provincetown. Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts. 1916. Angel Terrace near Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1897. Dunes in Provincetown. Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts. 1916. Tower Mountain, opposite Howardsville, Bakers Park. San Juan County, Colorado. 1874. Camp of the miners of the North Star and Mountaineer lodes, on King Solomon Mountain. San Juan County, Colorado. 1875. Gold mining, Borens Gulch, La Plata County, Colorado. 1875. Treasure Mountain in Elk Mountains, and view down the canyon of Rock Creek. Gunnison County, Colorado. 1873. Independence Rock. Natrona County, Wyoming. 1870. Hebgen Dam spillway. Gallatin County, Montana. 1959. Angel Terrace near Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1897.