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Granite Park in Glacier National Park. View north from Logan Pass to Granite Park (middle), an erosion remnant of a Pliocene (?) or early Pleistocene benchland; Haystack Butte and the Garden Wall (Continental Divide) at the right. Montana. September 8, 1928. Figure 7, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Glacial feature of the Mission Range: drift covered, benched spur east of the north lateral of Mission Creek glacier. Lake County, Montana. Pre-1940. Figure 20-B, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Terminal moraine of the Big Arm sub lobe of the Flathead glacier; view east from bordering outwash gravel plain in the Big Draw. Flathead County, Montana. August 26, 1930. Figure 23, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Tertiary "lake beds" (Oligocene ?) east of Dell near Cook's ranch on Sage Creek, Beaverhead Valley. Clay interbedded with sandstone layers tilted, beveled, and overlain by coarse quartzite gravel (early Pleistocene). Beaverhead County, Montana. August 23, 1937. Figure 2, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Terminal moraine of Wise River glacier fifteen miles south of Wise River; this moraine blocked the gorge until the river cut through the drift-covered rock spur at right. Beaverhead County, Montana. 1931. Figure 37, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Recent fault scarp across the alluvial terrace at the mouth of Sheep canyon, northwest of Lima; the trees are on the down faulted terrace below the scarp; the man (left) is on the terrace above the scarp. : Beaverhead County, Montana. August 21, 1936. Figure 40, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Glaciated gorge of Canyon Creek northwest of Melrose; showing the smooth Vipond Park upland (left background) and the north lateral moraine of Canyon Creek glacier (left foreground) that extends eastward down slope below the upland. Notch in rock spur (right middle ground) is a wind gap cut by a glacial marginal stream. Silver Bow County, Montana. August 27, 1936. Figure 38, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Glaciolacustrine silt near the National Bison Range east of Moiese, Lake County, Montana. September 10,1921. Figure 33, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Shore lines of glacial Lake Missoula on Mount Jumbo at the mouth of Hell Gate Canyon, Missoula, with the remnant of a rock terrace at the foot of the slope. Missoula County, Montana. September 15, 1928. Figure 32, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Album caption: Front of ice on terminal moraine of Sperry Glacier; when seen in 1927 and 1936 the ice front had receded some distance from this moraine. Glacier National Park. Montana. August 16, 1913. Figure 41, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953. Handwritten notes on album caption: Montana.
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Postglacial gorge of the Flathead River below Polson: vertical photograph of the gorge before construction of the dam showing the river cutting in the rock at the dam site near the sharp bend and the rapids above the bend at the left. Between these bends no rock is exposed suggesting the presence of a preglacial valley filled with several hundred feet of drift. Photograph courtesy of F.F. Henshaw, Federal Power Commission. Lake County, Montana. Pre-1940. Figure 21-B, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Glaciated gorge of South Crow Creek in the Mission Range. Lake County, Montana. 1931. Figure 19, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Lateral moraine of Lost Horse Creek glacier; the morainal drift appears to overlie a benched spur or erosion remnant of a piedmont terrace of Pliocene (?) or early Pleistocene age. Glaciated gorge of Horse Creek cuts the fault line scarp at the east front of the Bitterroot Range (right), view south over inner moraines. Montana. Pre-1940. Figure 11, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Granite boulders of disintegration in the Bitterroot Range at Lolo Hot Springs southwest of Missoula on the Lewis and Clark Trail. Missoula County, Montana. July 1937. Figure 6, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Terminal moraine of Wise River glacier fifteen miles south of Wise River; this moraine blocked the gorge until the river cut through the drift-covered rock spur at right. Beaverhead County, Montana. 1931. Figure 37, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Longitudinal profile of drumlin in NW 1/4 sec. 10 T. 28 N., R. 22 W.; four miles southwest of Kalispell, view looking east. Flathead County, Montana. August 15, 1927. Figure 26, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Composite of photos 1931 and 1932: Glaciolacustrine terrace on Vermilion River in the Cabinet Mountains east of Trout Creek, Cataract Creek cascades over rock ledges at the right. Lincoln County, Montana. July 11, 1928. Figure 36, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Big Draw, an abandoned outlet (Tertiary?) of Flathead basin now blocked by a terminal moraine (not in photo) west of the Big Arm of Flathead Lake. A filling of outwash gravel extends westward from the moraine to the valley of Sullivan Creek (foreground) where there is a whitish silt deposit of glacial Lake Missoula. Lake shore lines are well marked on the grassy hill slopes for hundreds of feet above the bottom land. View east from the hill north of Niarada. Flathead County, Montana. August 26, 1930. Figure 23, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Abrupt west face and glacially scoured, fault-lined scarp at base of Swan Range, south of Red Rock Canyon. Flathead County, Montana. July 29, 1936. Figure 8, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
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Moat and cliff of stratified ice, about 150 feet high, at the northeast margin of Sperry Glacier; rock cliff at the left. Glacier National Park, Montana. July 25, 1936. Figure 42, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 231. 1953.
map background search result map search result map Frontal margin of Sperry Glacier, resting on terminal moraine. Glacier National Park, 1913. View north from Logan Pass to Granite Park. Granite Park in Glacier National Park. 1928. Moat and cliff of stratified ice at Sperry Glacier. Glacier National Park, Montana. 1936. Frontal margin of Sperry Glacier, resting on terminal moraine. Glacier National Park, 1913. View north from Logan Pass to Granite Park. Granite Park in Glacier National Park. 1928. Moat and cliff of stratified ice at Sperry Glacier. Glacier National Park, Montana. 1936.