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Effects along the fault trace. San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906.

Dates

Date Taken
1906-04-28

Summary

Album caption and index card: California earthquake. Road near Point Reyes Station, offset 20 feet by main fault; looking northwest. The shear zone is here 60 feet wide and traverses a swamp. The road was raised above the swamp by an embankment, and between the limits of the shear zone this embankment settled to the general level of the swamp, about 3 1/2 feet. Photography made April 28 before the road had been repaired. Point Reyes National Seashore,. Point Reyes quadrangle, Marin County, California. 1906. Published as plate 1-A in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 324. 1907. Handwritten note on album caption: Figure 313 in Introduction to Geology by E.B. Branson and W.A. Tarr.

Contacts

Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Gilbert, Grove Karl

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Type Scheme Key
name photoLibrary ggk02846
number photoLibrary 12322
batch photoLibrary batch01
number_in_book photoLibrary 2846

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