Terminal moraine of a McNeeley cirque glacier at Tipsoo Lake, Pierce County, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. 1964.
Dates
Date Taken
1964
Summary
Album Caption: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. Terminal moraine of a McNeeley cirque glacier at Tipsoo Lake, east of Mount Rainier. View is southeastward. Tipsoo Lake (foreground) lies in a glacially scoured bedrock basin that was formed during Evans Creek time. The small pond just beyond the highway is dammed by the McNeeley moraine, and a wooded area upslope from the pond is underlain by a small rock glacier deposit of McNeeley age which formed when the cirque glacier shrank in volume. Circa 1964. Pierce County, Washington. Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 847, figure 26. 1974.
Summary
Album Caption: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.
Terminal moraine of a McNeeley cirque glacier at Tipsoo Lake, east of Mount Rainier. View is southeastward. Tipsoo Lake (foreground) lies in a glacially scoured bedrock basin that was formed during Evans Creek time. The small pond just beyond the highway is dammed by the McNeeley moraine, and a wooded area upslope from the pond is underlain by a small rock glacier deposit of McNeeley age which formed when the cirque glacier shrank in volume. Circa 1964.
Pierce County, Washington.
Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 847, figure 26. 1974.
Image located in U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library, Crandell, D.R. Collection album, no.154.
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