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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana. Storms with high winds and waves create steep narrow beaches, like this one where winter storms are frequent and especially destructive. Page 28 (bottom left), U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1085.
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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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St. Francis Dam Flood March 12-13, 1928, Los Angeles County, California. Final resting place of several huge concrete blocks from the west abutment of the dam, about one-third of a mile downstream from the dam. The tractor in the foreground marks the flood water line. March 17, 1928.
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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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San Fernando Earthquake. February 1971. Collapsed overpass at interchange of Highways 5 (GOLDEN STATE FREEWAY), and 210 (FOOTHILL FREEWAY), seismic shaking, compression, and extension along length of roadway are all responsible for damage, view looking east. Overpass was completed but not all segments were yet in service. San Fernando Valley Juvenile Hall at right, Feb 11, 1971.
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Mouth of (Big) Thompson Canyon west of Loveland; showing metamorphosed strata of Pre-Cambrian age standing nearly vertical, the hogback of Fountain formation appears in the middle distance. The angular contact of two represents all geologic time from Pre- Cambrian to Pennsylvanian. Larimer County, Colorado. 1922. Plate 3-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 149. 1927.
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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.
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Panorama of images 1211 and 1212 as seen in W.C. Alden's photo album. View of Shoshone Reservoir west of Cody. At left, canyon in which is Shoshone Dam. Shows Paleozoic and Mesozoic limestones and shales overlying granite on Rattlesnake anticline in Cedar Mountain, cut through by the canyon. Reservoir in broad valley to west (right). Park County, Wyoming. June 15, 1922.
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The small triangular mass in left center of the picture, to the left of the geologic hammer, is filled with Devonian fossils.
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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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Tennantite. Bureau of Mines, Mineral Specimens C1730.
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Alaska Glaciers. Twin Glaciers at the head of the east fork of Klein Creek. Yukon Region, White District. Alaska. July 7, 1940.
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Alaska Glaciers. East of Thompson Ridge showing lateral moraines formed by late Wisconsin(?) and Recent advances of the Tana Glacier. Chitina district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. August 20, 1958.
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Album caption: High "gravel" of the Sierra. This occurrence specially noted by I.C. Russell, Quaternary History of Mono Valley, p. 322. Dana Plateau, about one mile northeast from Mount Dana; elevation, 11, 800 feet. Northeastward, showing Paoha Island (white patch) in Mono Lake, Sierra Nevada. Mount Lyell quadrangle, Mono County, California. 1908.
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Album caption: Proposed Rocky Mountain (Estes) National Park, Colorado. Elephant Rocks, immediately north of Estes Park Valley. Picture by R.B. Marshall, Chief Geographer, 1912. Handwritten notes on album caption: Longs Peak quad., Larimer County Index card: Proposed Rocky Mountain (Estes) National Park. Elephant rocks, immediately north of Estes Park Valley. Longs Peak quadrangle, Larimer County, Colorado. 1912. (Photo by R.B. Marshall) (Spot on negative).
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Fault scarp formed by the Borah Peak earthquake of October 28, 1983, at the mountain front north of Rock Creek. Broken ground of graben in foreground. Ranging pole at antithetical fault. 1450 feet north, 700 feet east, SW1/4, Sec. 34, T. 10 N., R. 22 E. Borah Peak quadrangle. Custer County, Idaho. October 9, 1984.
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San Fernando, California, Earthquake February 1971. Side views of sections of a 49.5-inch (outside) diameter x 1/4-inch welded steel pipe A 283 Gr.C., showing a mechanically coupled joint failure with 2-inch diameter rods (on exterior) from the Granada Trunk line in the Metropolitan Water District corridor. 1971.
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. Quarry one mile west of Elmhurst where Devonian fossils were found. 1901. Glaciated rocks at Reid Inlet. Harriman Expedition, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Gustavus, Alaska. 1899. Storms with high winds and waves create steep narrow beaches. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter County, Indiana. Furnace Creek Formation at the north end of the Black Mountains. Death Valley National Park, California. 1960. Side views of sections of a welded steel pipe, showing a mechanically coupled joint failure. San Fernando, California, Earthquake. 1971. Mouth of the Colorado Canyon. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. 1904. 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. Elephant Rocks, Rocky Mountain National Park. Larimer County, Colorado. 1912. View toward the Carnegie Institution Marine Biological Laboratory. Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida. 1911. Side views of sections of a welded steel pipe, showing a mechanically coupled joint failure. San Fernando, California, Earthquake. 1971. Quarry one mile west of Elmhurst where Devonian fossils were found. 1901. View toward the Carnegie Institution Marine Biological Laboratory. Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida. 1911. Glaciated rocks at Reid Inlet. Harriman Expedition, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Gustavus, Alaska. 1899. Mouth of the Colorado Canyon. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. 1904. Storms with high winds and waves create steep narrow beaches. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter County, Indiana. Elephant Rocks, Rocky Mountain National Park. Larimer County, Colorado. 1912. Panorama view southwest across cirque at head of Bowman Creek to Boulder Glacier and Kintla peak. Glacier National Park, Montana.1913. 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. Furnace Creek Formation at the north end of the Black Mountains. Death Valley National Park, California. 1960.