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Garfield County. Castro Bluff, view looking westward from its base. Terrace developed in the Sevier (?) Formation at the top of the Wasatch Formation. 1941.
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Nevada Earthquake December 16, 1954. Fault scarp near Fairview Park resulting from the earthquake. Photo by H. Benioff. Pages 26-27, Earthquake Information Bulletin, v.6, no.6.
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Panorama with images 042 and 044. View showing section overlying the Eagle at same locality as image 041, including almost the entire thickness of Claggett formation with the base of the light colored Judith River beds overlying it on the right. The nearly horizontal Judith River beds in the distance are beyond a fault. Blaine County, Montana. 1903.
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Panorama formed from photos 80 and 81, from near Montpelier Creek, looking northwest; shows southern tip of uneroded part of overthrust block and position of subordinate branch fault; Carboniferous formations; Thaynes group; Nugget sandstone; Twin Creek limestone. Syncline and anticlines of lower fault block in foreground. Bear Lake County, Idaho. August 25, 1911. Plate 36-C, with graphics, in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 152. 1927.
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Washington County. Parunuweap Formation overlying Moenkopi; on divide between tributaries to Virgin River near Grafton. 1942.
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Coalinga, California, Earthquake May 2, 1983. One of several houses which were constructed with non-reinforced brick and brick facades. Photo by K. Harms, 1983. Page 227, Earthquake Information Bulletin, v.15, no.6.
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Guatemala Earthquake 1976. Offset concrete patch shown in photo eib00153. Photo by R.C. Bucknam, April 18, 1976. Figure 6, page 16, Earthquake Information Bulletin, v.9, no.2.
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Panorama of ridge extending from sec. 14 through sec. 3, T. 8 S., R. 44 E., Slug Creek quadrangle; showing dip slope of Rex chert member (68 and 69), phosphate shales of Phosphoria formation (70), and Wells formation; Wood shale in foreground. Caribou County, Idaho. August 7, 1911. Plate 29-A, with graphics, in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 152. 1927.
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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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Gradational contact between thick-bedded Charco Redondo limestone member on hilltop and underlying thin-bedded tuff of Cobre formation with subordinate limestones underlain in turn by massive nonlimy pyro-clastics in foreground, along Central Highway just south of locality 87. Geology of South-central Oriente, Cuba. Oct. 1940-Oct. 1945. Published as Fig. 29, U.S.G.S. Bulletin 975-D. 1955.
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Hawaii Earthquake November 1975. Surf surges through a palm grove near Halape as a result of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Photo by B. Morrison, November 1975. Cover, Earthquake Information Bulletin, v.8, no.6.
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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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Form a panorama: Escarpment at eastern margin of Canon City coalfield, north of Rockvale; from top to bottom, cliff-making sandstone, capped with Arapahoe (?) conglomerate, upper coal group of the Vermejo formation and Rockvale sandstone member of the Vermejo formation. Fremont County, Colorado. Circa 1907. Plate 23, as a panorama with graphics, in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 101. 1917.
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Panorama with image 052. Deer Springs Wash, about one-quarter mile above diversion dam; shows outlier in Nakaibito formation contact seen sloping down toward gully bottom. Mexican Springs Experimental Station. San Juan County, New Mexico. October 1949.
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Coalinga, California, Earthquake May 2, 1983. This house was constructed with non-reinforced brick and brick facade. Photo by K. Harms, 1983. Page 228, Earthquake Information Bulletin, v.15, no.6.
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Hawaii Earthquake November 16, 1983. Earthquake damage in the library of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Photo by J.D. Griggs. Page 8, Earthquake Information Bulletin, v.16, no.1.
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Panorama with image 7, 8, and 9. View from the west of southern part of Tenmile Range, showing approximate trace of Mosquito fault and the abrupt change of topography across the fault. Rounded slopes in foreground are of Minturn and Maroon Formations. Jagged ridges and cirque walls consist of Precambrian crystalline rocks. Lake and Summit Counties, Colorado. Circa 1963. Published in US Geological Survey Professional Paper 652, figure 8. 1971.
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Form a panorama of Miocene and Pliocene formations: sea cliff at Malaga Cove, (a) nonmarine terrace cover and dune sand (Pleistocene to Recent), (b) Repetto siltstone (lower Pliocene); (c) Malaga mudstone member of Monterey shale (upper Miocene); (d) Valmonte diatomite member of Monterey shale (upper Miocene). Los Angeles County, California. 1930. Plate 10-A, U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 207. 1946.
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Comb monocline near Marsh Pass, Navajo County, Harsh Pass quadrangle. La Plata sandstone caps the mesa and a sloping wall of Chinle formation is exposed below. June, 1913.
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Panorama of ridge extending from sec. 14 through sec. 3, T. 8 S., R. 44 E., Slug Creek quadrangle; showing dip slope of Rex chert member (68 and 69), phosphate shales of Phosphoria formation (70), and Wells formation; Wood shale in foreground. Caribou County, Idaho. August 7, 1911. Plate 29-A, with graphics, in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 152. 1927.