Aerial view of Lituya Bay from point off entrance, showing 1958 wave damage. Mt. Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. 1958.

Album caption: Aerial view of Lituya Bay from point off entrance; showing 1958 wave damage. Mt. Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. August 29, 1958. Index card: View of Lituya Bay. A giant wave generated on July 9, 1958, by a rockslide from the cliff at the head of the bay destroyed the forest over the light areas to a maximum altitude of 1,720 feet and to a maximum distance of 3,600 feet in from high-tide shore line at Fish Lake. A fishing boat anchored in the cove was carried over the spit in the foreground; a boat underway near the entrance was sunk and a third boat, anchored, rode out the wave. Mount Fairweather quadrangle, Lituya district, Alaska Gulf region, Alaska. Published...

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Oblique aerial view looking east toward Cheyenne at the Gangplank. Laramie County, Wyoming. No date.

Index card: Oblique aerial view looking east toward cheyenne at "the Gangplank." Interestate Highway 80 and the Union pacific Railroad follow the Gangplank from the High Plains in the distance onto the Precambrian rocks (older than 570 m.y.) of the Laramie Mountains in the foreground. Laramie County, Wyoming. n.d. (Photo by R.D. Miller). Portion published as figure 15 in USGS Bulletin 1943, 1980.

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