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Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. Chaotic pressure ridge at the toe of a rotational slide, Bluff Road. In part, toe surged forward as an earthflow. Anchorage, Anchorage District, Cook Inlet Region, Alaska, 1964. Photo by W.R. Hansen, 1964. Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 542-A Figure 21, p.A36. 1965.
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Gregory, #1133a. 1133b, 1133c, 1133d. cc 1942.
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Aplopappus armeriodes (Goldenweed). In bud. Colorado Plateau. May 1950.
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South end of Reed & Benson ridges, showing fault. White band near upper left corner is "R" and "B" lime. Repeated BT thrusting. Salt Lake County, Utah. Circa 1936. Panorama with cfc00785. Published in U.S.Geological Survey Professional Paper 201, Plate 6-B. 1943.
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Glacier National Park, Montana. West from the summit of Red Eagle Mountain: Going-to-the-Sun Mountain in the center (photo sec0347a) and Great Northern Railroad chalets on Upper Saint Mary Lake beneath it. Photo by C.S. Corbett. August 1914. Photos sec00347, sec0347a, sec0347b form a panorama.
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Tepee buttes, Arkansas Valley. Eastern Colorado. 1894. Photo by F.P. Gulliver
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Kaiparowits Coal Basin, Utah. Landslide debris just north of Fifty-Mile Point looking west near the south end of Fifty-Mile Mountain. Landslide and debris- flow material has moved toward the viewer from near the base of the highest cliffs onto the intermediate bench of Dakota Sandstone as a sheet slide and locally has flowed down over Morrison-Entrada cliffs as a lobate debris slide. Boulders in debris slide are as large as 40 feet. Debris flow formed at lower end. 1976. Portion of figure 9, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1601.
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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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Effects of Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi. Aerial view of the Beau Rivage Casino. Biloxi, Mississippi. September 11, 2005. (Effects of Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi images have been donated to the Photographic Library by USGS employees, FEMA contractors, the National Guard, the U.S. Military, local police and state patrols, and public citizens.)
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Effects of Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi. Ruins of Edgewater McDonald's restaurant. Biloxi, Mississippi. September 18, 2005. (Effects of Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi images have been donated to the Photographic Library by USGS employees, FEMA contractors, the National Guard, the U.S. Military, local police and state patrols, and public citizens.)
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Panoramic view from top of Needle Mountain over the Pinal Creek area of Gila conglomerate; to the right of photo 206 is seen the Schultze ranch, surrounded by granitic hills, behind which rise the higher summits of the Pinal Range. In the middle-ground Bloody Tanks Wash may be traced from ranch down to Miami Flats near the left of photo 207. Surrounding these flats and stretching far to south, into the drainage basin of the Gila River, are the low sculptured spurs of Gila conglomerate, rising highest on the right against the slopes of the Pinal Range. Gila County, Arizona. December 17, 1901. Published as plates 6-C and D (in reverse order) in U.S. Geological Survey, Professional paper 12. 1903
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Outer Banks of North Carolina. New lands are created as tidal deltas become vegetated. Floodtide delta in the upper right; ebbtide delta in the lower left. Photo by J. Fisher, circa 1980. Figure 12-A, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1177-B.
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EXPLORATION: U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (Hayden Survey) Sheet number 22. Panoramic view looking north from Golden Peak. Longs Peak identified on horizon at right. Forms panorama to the left with sheet number 21A (sketch 7448.19A) and to the right with sheet number 20 (sketch 7448.19C) Colorado, 1873.
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Tennantite. Bureau of Mines, Mineral Specimens C1730.
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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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Album caption and index card: Restoration of a pueblo community house in Parunuweap Canyon, based on a study of ruins. Zion National Park. Washington County, Utah. n.d. (Sketch by B. Wetherill, National Park Service). Published as Figure 19 in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 220. 1950.
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EXPLORATION: U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (Hayden Survey) Sheet number 12. Panoramic view along mountain range. Peaks identified, left to right: Mt. Ouray, Shavano, Antero, Princeton. Forms panorama to the right with sheet number 12A (sketch 7448.13A). Colorado, 1873.
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USGS Hurricane Katrina. This is in the same Chef Menteur-to-Rigolets area as in devastation series of images 033-038. I received permission from the people to take their picture, but names were not recorded. September 16, 2005. U.S. Geological Survey "Hurricane Katrina" photographs document general area shots and close-ups of the levee breeches from the failed 17th Street Canal and London Avenue Canal.
map background search result map search result map El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California. 1913. Reed & Benson ridges, Salt Lake County, Utah. Circa 1936. Tepee Buttes, Arkansas Valley, Colorado. 1894. Sketch of the restoration of a pueblo community house in Parunuweap Canyon, Zion National Park, Washington County, Utah. n.d. 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. Stereo studies about Mount Blackmore, M.T. Cascades, head of Middle Creek. Gallatin County, Montana. 1872. Glaciers at the head of Luna Creek in Picket Range. North Cascades National Park, Washington. 1960. West from the summit of Red Eagle Mountain. Glacier National Park, Montana. 1914. El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California. 1913. Reed & Benson ridges, Salt Lake County, Utah. Circa 1936. Glaciers at the head of Luna Creek in Picket Range. North Cascades National Park, Washington. 1960. Sketch of the restoration of a pueblo community house in Parunuweap Canyon, Zion National Park, Washington County, Utah. n.d. West from the summit of Red Eagle Mountain. Glacier National Park, Montana. 1914. Stereo studies about Mount Blackmore, M.T. Cascades, head of Middle Creek. Gallatin County, Montana. 1872. 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. Tepee Buttes, Arkansas Valley, Colorado. 1894.