Madison River below slide. Hebgen Lake, Montana Earthquake. 1959.

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1959

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Album caption: Madison River below slide. River almost dry below slide. Note high water marks and debris left by tidal wave from Hebgen Lake. Published in U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hebgen Lake--Madison River earthquake disaster: August 1959, Gallatin and Beaverhead National Forests. 1959.

Summary

Album caption: Madison River below slide. River almost dry below slide. Note high water marks and debris left by tidal wave from Hebgen Lake. 
 

Published in U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hebgen Lake--Madison River earthquake disaster: August 1959, Gallatin and Beaverhead National Forests. 1959.

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U.S. Forest Service

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Related External Resources

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Evolution of Seismic Geyser, Yellowstone National Park	https://pubs.usgs.gov/unnumbered/70169244/report.pdf
The Hebgen Lake, Montana Earthquake of August 17, 1959	https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0435/report.pdf
Steam Explosions, Earthquakes, and Volcanic Eruptions— What’s in Yellowstone’s Future?	https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3024/fs2005-3024.pdf
Earthquakes at Yellowstone	https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/hazard_earthquakes.html
The 1959 Hebgen Lake, Montana, earthquake: Two geological points of view	https://pubs.usgs.gov/unnumbered/70178963/report.pdf
Hebgen Lake--Madison River earthquake disaster : August 1959, Gallatin-Beaverhead National Forests	https://archive.org/details/CAT10820664/page/n61

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Available in the USGS Photographic Collection, MM00619 (MicroMARC) Collection, located in cold storage Box 27MM (U.S.G.S. Hebgen Lake Earthquake, 1959/MM00619).

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