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Album caption: Section of spruce tree showing wave damage, Lituya Bay. Mt. Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. 1954. Index card: Section cut in 1953 from spruce tree growing just above trimline of 1853-54 giant wave. There are 100 growth rings outside injury on right. Mount Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. Published as Plate 10 in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 354-C. 1960.
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El Capitan from south, the cliff of El Capitan lies near the center, with Guadalupe Peak concealed behind it. Numbers (on published photo; progressing down the mountain) refer to original section by Shunard; White limestone (Capitan); upper dark limestone (Pinery); yellow sandstone (Delaware Mountain); basal black limestone (Bone Spring). Letters (on published photo progressing downward) refer to Quaternary deposits; older slope deposits; younger slope deposits: Oblique aerial photo by U.S. Army Air Corps. Culberson County, Texas. Circa 1945. Plate 1, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 215. 1948.
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Album caption: North slope of summit 4410, 4 miles south-southeast of Victorio peak(sec. 9, Bk. 66,TW. 6), Viewed southward from Texas Highway 54, shoeing angular unconformty between Hueco and Bone Spring limestones. Sierra Diablo, Culberson County. Texas, 1938.
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Album caption: Aerial photograph of Redoubt Volcano, Drift River Valley, Rust Slough, Cannery Creek, and Drift River Terminal(between Rust Slough and Drift River). View to West Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. 1989-1990. Photograph by Steven R. Brantley on April 27, 1990.
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Album caption: (Also, see #723) Panoramic view of front of Hugh Miller Glacier. July 28, 1919. No index card available.
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Drying and crushing plant belonging to Charleston Mining Company (subsidiary of V.C.) at the company's pit shown in images 704 and 705. Charleston County, South Carolina. February 22, 1924.
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Album caption: Aerial view of Lituya Bay from point off entrance; showing 1958 wave damage. Mt. Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. August 29, 1958. Index card: View of Lituya Bay. A giant wave generated on July 9, 1958, by a rockslide from the cliff at the head of the bay destroyed the forest over the light areas to a maximum altitude of 1,720 feet and to a maximum distance of 3,600 feet in from high-tide shore line at Fish Lake. A fishing boat anchored in the cove was carried over the spit in the foreground; a boat underway near the entrance was sunk and a third boat, anchored, rode out the wave. Mount Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. Published...
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Death Valley National Park, California. Furnace Creek Formation at the north end of the Black Mountains. View is southwest and west of Zabriskie Point, an overlook by Highway 190 about 3 miles up Furnace Creek Wash from Furnace Creek Inn. The base of the Furnace Creek Formation is at the topographic break between the badlands and the rougher, higher ground in the distance on the left. Light-colored playa beds about 2,500 feet thick extend to the base of a conglomerate which forms the dark cliff at the right. The beds are dipping to the right (north) into the Texas Spring Syncline. The center of the photograph looks west across Death Valley to the Panamint Range at Aguereberry Point; Tucki Mountain on the right....
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Album caption: Tertiary lacustrine clays of Hueco Bolson cut into badlands by tributaries of Rio Grande. 5 Miles east of Clint , El Paso County, Texas.
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Album caption: Scar of rockslide, head of Lituya Bay, that generated 1958 giant wave. Mt. Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. August 7, 1958. Index card: Northeast wall of Gilbert Inlet; shows scar of rockslide. Head of slide about 3,000 feet altitude, was just below snowfield in upper center. Front of Lituya Glacier at lower left corner. Mount Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. July 10, 1958. Published as Plate 4-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 354-C. 1960. Figure 21 in Seismological Society of America. Bulletin, v. 50, no. 2, p. 290. 1960.
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Panorama with image 019 and 020. Type of locality of Nakaibito formation. Figuerdo Wash, 4000 feet above Highway 666. Mexican Springs Experimental Station, San Juan County, New Mexico. Circa 1949.
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Album caption: Exposures of Van Horn sandstone(lower right), Scolithus-bearing and piloceras-bearing sandstone members of El Paso limestone(upper right), and Hueco limestone (upper left), the letter overlying the other two unconformably. Similar to number 286.South end of Baylor Mountains. Culberson County, Texas. July 1931.
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Album caption: Ledges in lower part of Hueco limestone, lower part of Sierra Diablo escarpment 2 miles Westof figure Two Ranch. Van Horn quadrangle. Culberson County, Texas. July, 1928.
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Garfield County, Utah Blue Springs Meadows. A former valley leading to Mammoth Creek blocked by Basalts from Miller Knoll (right Sky Line). Became a Lake that eventually cut an outlet northward through the Brian Head Formation (upper left) (see 1152). 1944.
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Index card: Oblique aerial view looking east toward cheyenne at "the Gangplank." Interestate Highway 80 and the Union pacific Railroad follow the Gangplank from the High Plains in the distance onto the Precambrian rocks (older than 570 m.y.) of the Laramie Mountains in the foreground. Laramie County, Wyoming. n.d. (Photo by R.D. Miller). Portion published as figure 15 in USGS Bulletin 1943, 1980.
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Album caption: Icings along the trans-Alaska pipeline route: Flood-plain icing in Delta River valley upstream from Miller Creek. Mt. Hayes quadrangle, Donnelly district, Yukon region, Alaska. April 18, 1974. Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 979, figure 26. 1976.
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Quartz overgrowths on sandstone grains after clay formation, Nanushuk Group. Quartzose grains have overgrowths at points of low pressure (pore space) adjeacent to areas that were probably under high pressure (grain contacts). Overgrowths probably develop where clay coatings are absent. A polycrystalline quartz grain (upper left) has a pod of kaolinite growing on its surface. Sample 78ACh23, Kurupa anticline; magnification, 6.3 x 10, photomicrograph. Central North Slope, Alaska. Published as Figure 47A in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1614. 1985.
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Part of the Barrow unit of the Gubik Formation at Nunavak, showing gray blocky sandy silty clay at base, a thin lens of clean yellow sand in the center, and yellow-brown blocky clayey silty sand at top. Barrow district, Northern Alaska region, Alaska. August 10, 1946. Published as figure 26 in U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 302-C. 1964.
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Death Valley National Park, California. Furnace Creek Formation at the north end of the Black Mountains. View is southwest and west of Zabriskie Point, an overlook by Highway 190 about 3 miles up Furnace Creek Wash from Furnace Creek Inn. The base of the Furnace Creek Formation is at the topographic break between the badlands and the rougher, higher ground in the distance on the left. Light-colored playa beds about 2,500 feet thick extend to the base of a conglomerate which forms the dark cliff at the right. The beds are dipping to the right (north) into the Texas Spring Syncline. The center of the photograph looks west across Death Valley to the Panamint Range at Aguereberry Point; Tucki Mountain on the right....
map background search result map search result map Quartz overgrowths on sandstone grains after clay formation, Nanushuk Group. Central North Slope, Alaska. No date. Part of the Barrow unit of the Gubik Formation at Nunavak. Northern Alaska region, Alaska. 1946. Spanish coquina quarries. Anastasia Island, St Johns County, Florida. 1907. A former valley leading to Mammoth Creek blocked by Basalts from Miller Knoll (right Sky Line). Blue Springs Meadows, Garfield County, Utah. 1944. Furnace Creek Formation at the north end of the Black Mountains. Death Valley National Park, California. Circa 1960. Furnace Creek Formation at the north end of the Black Mountains. Death Valley National Park, California. Circa 1960. El Capitan from south, the cliff of El Capitan lies near the center, with Guadalupe Peak concealed behind it. Culberson County, Texas. 1945. Type of locality of Nakaibito formation. San Juan County, New Mexico. 1949. Drying and crushing plant belonging to Charleston Mining Company. Charleston County, South Carolina. 1924. Front of Hugh Miller Glacier. Alaska. 1919. Section of spruce tree showing wave damage, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. 1954. Northeast wall of Gilbert Inlet, showing scar of rockslide, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. 1958. Aerial view of Lituya Bay from point off entrance, showing 1958 wave damage. Mt. Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. 1958. Icings along the trans-Alaska pipeline route: Flood-plain icing in Delta River valley upstream from Miller Creek. Alaska. 1974. Oblique aerial view looking east toward Cheyenne at the Gangplank. Laramie County, Wyoming. No date. Ledges in lower part of Hueco limestone, lower part of Sierra Diablo escarpment. Texas, 1928. Exposures of Van Horn sandstone, Scolithus-bearing and piloceras-bearing sandstone members of El Paso limestone. Texas, 1931. North slope of summit 4410, 4 miles south-southeast of Victorio peak. Texas, 1938. Tertiary lacustrine clays of Hueco Bolson cut into badlands by tributaries of Rio Grande. Texas, The Eruption of Redoubt Volcano. Alaska, 1990. Spanish coquina quarries. Anastasia Island, St Johns County, Florida. 1907. Tertiary lacustrine clays of Hueco Bolson cut into badlands by tributaries of Rio Grande. Texas, Oblique aerial view looking east toward Cheyenne at the Gangplank. Laramie County, Wyoming. No date. Drying and crushing plant belonging to Charleston Mining Company. Charleston County, South Carolina. 1924. El Capitan from south, the cliff of El Capitan lies near the center, with Guadalupe Peak concealed behind it. Culberson County, Texas. 1945. Ledges in lower part of Hueco limestone, lower part of Sierra Diablo escarpment. Texas, 1928. Exposures of Van Horn sandstone, Scolithus-bearing and piloceras-bearing sandstone members of El Paso limestone. Texas, 1931. North slope of summit 4410, 4 miles south-southeast of Victorio peak. Texas, 1938. Type of locality of Nakaibito formation. San Juan County, New Mexico. 1949. A former valley leading to Mammoth Creek blocked by Basalts from Miller Knoll (right Sky Line). Blue Springs Meadows, Garfield County, Utah. 1944. Furnace Creek Formation at the north end of the Black Mountains. Death Valley National Park, California. Circa 1960. Furnace Creek Formation at the north end of the Black Mountains. Death Valley National Park, California. Circa 1960. Section of spruce tree showing wave damage, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. 1954. Northeast wall of Gilbert Inlet, showing scar of rockslide, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. 1958. Aerial view of Lituya Bay from point off entrance, showing 1958 wave damage. Mt. Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. 1958. Quartz overgrowths on sandstone grains after clay formation, Nanushuk Group. Central North Slope, Alaska. No date. Part of the Barrow unit of the Gubik Formation at Nunavak. Northern Alaska region, Alaska. 1946. Front of Hugh Miller Glacier. Alaska. 1919. Icings along the trans-Alaska pipeline route: Flood-plain icing in Delta River valley upstream from Miller Creek. Alaska. 1974. The Eruption of Redoubt Volcano. Alaska, 1990.