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Hebgen Lake Earthquake 1959

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1. car00622.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Remnant of the road which slid into the lake is on the left. New road is on the right. July 6, 1984. ID. Carrara, P. 622ct
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2. crb00656.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Close-up of fractured Highway 287: man inspecting damage. ID. Colton, R.B. 656ct
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3. crb00657.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Fractured Highway 287, near large alcove created, looking east, men provide scale. ID. Colton, R.B. 657ct
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4. crb00658.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Fractured Highway 287, near Hebgen Lake, people and cars for scale. ID. Colton, R.B. 658ct
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5. crb00659.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Fractured Highway 287, near Hebgen Lake. ID. Colton, R.B. 659ct
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6. hjb00001.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Hebgen fault scarp where it cuts across Cabin Creek. The fault scarp here is 5 feet high. The stream rapidly lowered the scarp and in about two years appeared as a rapids of moderate gradient. August 1959. ID. Hadley, J.B.   1ct
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7. hjb00002.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Disrupted ground and tilted trees of the Kirkwood earthflow. View is northwest. 1959 ID. Hadley, J.B.   2ct
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8. hjb00006.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Kirkwood earthflow. Contact between the earthflow and bedrock shows in the lower right corner. Note the tilted trees and hummocky ground in the center. 1959. ID. Hadley, J.B.   6ct
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9. hjb00007.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Disrupted ground and tilted trees of the Kirkwood earth flow. View is northwestward. 1959. ID. Hadley, J.B.   7ct
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10. hjb0012c.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Disrupted ground, tilt trees and pressure ridge formed near the margins of the Kirkwood earthflow. 1959. ID. Hadley, J.B.  12ct
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11. hjb0016c.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Detritus, tilted trees, and the hummocky ground mark the center of the Kirkwood earth flow. View is southwestward. 1959. ID. Hadley, J.B.  16ct
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12. hjb0024c.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Fault scarp and moat at Cabin Creek. 1959. ID. Hadley, J.B.  24ct
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13. hjb0028c.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Fault scarp at Cabin Creek. 1959. ID. Hadley, J.B.  28ct
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14. hjb00058.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Scarp area at the head of the Kirkwood earthflow, showing maximum distension of the surface, toppled trees, soil destroyed, and much subsoil. View is east from the east edge of the flow. ID. Hadley, J.B.  58
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15. hwb00460.gif Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Welded tuff, 3.5 miles southeast of West Yellowstone in the Hebgen Lake, Montana, earthquake area. Squashed-shard layering in this devitrified tuff dips 3 degrees to the right. The rock disintegrates to granular debris and forms rounded outcrops. September 1959. Figure 108, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 435-S. ID. Hamilton, W.B.  460
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16. hwb00573.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. "Quake Lake" formed by the earthquake landslide. August 1959. ID. Hamilton, W.B.  573ct
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17. hwb00995.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Red Canyon fault scarp east of Blarneystone Ranch. August 1959. ID. Hamilton, W.B.  995ct
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18. hwb01042.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Hebgen Lake fault scarp. August 1959. ID. Hamilton, W.B. 1042ct
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19. hwb01043.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Scarp in the sand at Duck Creek. August 1959. ID. Hamilton, W.B. 1043ct
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20. hwb01044.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Culligan barn collapsed by fault scarp extending from foreground through barn and across stream. August 1959. ID. Hamilton, W.B. 1044ct
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21. hwb01045.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Culligan Ranch haystack upset by shaking. August 1959. ID. Hamilton, W.B. 1045ct
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22. hwb01047.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Scarp and moat at Culligan's Ranch. August 1959. ID. Hamilton, W.B. 1047ct
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23. hwb01049.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Scarp above Corey Spring. September 1959. ID. Hamilton, W.B. 1049ct
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24. hwb01052.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Red Mountain scarp. September 1959. ID. Hamilton, W.B. 1052ct
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25. hwb02749.gif Hebgen Lake, Montana, Earthquake August 1959. Scarp at Grayling Creek near Culligan's Ranch. August 1959. ID. Hamilton, W.B. 2749ct
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