Skip to main content
Advanced Search

Filters: Date Range: {"choice":"week"} (X) > Tags: {"scheme":"http://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/undefined/DenverHistoryPhotoLibrary/Categories"} (X) > partyWithName: U.S. Geological Survey (X)

9 results (129ms)   

View Results as: JSON ATOM CSV
thumbnail
Cores from the Flood and Grisham well, lying on the ground near the well site. Copied by Survey from photo by W.B. Lang. Culberson County, Texas. January 1924.
thumbnail
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....
thumbnail
Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. Damage to houses from landslides in Turnagain Heights in Anchorage. Photo by R.A. Page. Pages 24-25 , Earthquake Information Bulletin, v.12, no.1.
thumbnail
Death Valley National Park, California. Thin-bedded middle member of the Bonanza King Formation on the north side of Trail Canyon. View is north. This member, about 600 feet thick, forms a distinctive unit separating massive thick-bedded dolomite comprising the upper and lower members of the formation. Circa 1960. Figure 22, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 494-A.
thumbnail
Death Valley National Park, California. Ovaloid brachiopods may be found in light tan, shaly and sandy beds that occur near the middle of the Bonanza King Formation. With the brachiopods are fragments of trilobites. Circa 1960.
thumbnail
Album caption and index card: The Wescogame Formation in Grand Canyon. A, Large-scale tabular-planar cross-strata at top of cliff unit; slope unit above and main cliff of Esplanade Sandstone beyond; Thunder River Trail. Grand Canyon National Park. Coconino County, Arizona. n.d. Published as Figure C7-A in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1173. 1982.
thumbnail
Specimens showing injection gneiss formed by intimate intrusion of quartz biotite schist of the Idaho Springs formation by granite pegmatite; taken from dump of Golden Rod tunnel, Silver Creek. Gilpin County, Colorado. Circa 1911. Plate 10-B, natural size, in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 94. 1917.
thumbnail
Album caption and index card: Cross-stratification in cliff unit of the Manakacha Formation, Grand Canyon region. C, Wedge-planar cross-strata in calcarenous sandstone, Whitmore Wash. Hammer for scale. Grand Canyon National Park. Mohave County, Arizona. n.d. Published as Figure K6-C in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1173. 1982.
thumbnail
Miocene and Pliocene formations: Broken and stretched phosphatic layers (light colored) in laminated diatomite and diatomaceous shale (dark-colored), Valmonte diatomite member of Monterey shale on north limb of southern syncline at Malaga Cove. Los Angeles County, California. 1930. Plate 10-B, U.S.Geological Survey Professional Paper 207. 1946.
    map background search result map search result map Specimens showing injection gneiss formed by intimate intrusion of quartz biotite schist of the Idaho Springs formation by granite pegmatite. Gilpin County, Colorado. Circa 1911. Damage to houses from landslides in Turnagain Heights in Anchorage. Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. Thin-bedded middle member of the Bonanza King Formation on the north side of Trail Canyon. Death Valley National Park, California. Circa 1960. Ovaloid brachiopods may be found in light tan, shaly and sandy beds that occur near the middle of the Bonanza King Formation. 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. Wescogame Formation on Thunder River Trail. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. No date. Cross-stratification in cliff unit of the Manakacha Formation. Grand Canyon National Park, Mohave County, Arizona. No date. Miocene and Pliocene formations. Los Angeles County, California. 1930. Miocene and Pliocene formations. Los Angeles County, California. 1930. Thin-bedded middle member of the Bonanza King Formation on the north side of Trail Canyon. Death Valley National Park, California. Circa 1960. Ovaloid brachiopods may be found in light tan, shaly and sandy beds that occur near the middle of the Bonanza King Formation. 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. Cross-stratification in cliff unit of the Manakacha Formation. Grand Canyon National Park, Mohave County, Arizona. No date. Wescogame Formation on Thunder River Trail. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. No date. Damage to houses from landslides in Turnagain Heights in Anchorage. Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964.