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Description
Newly uplifted seafloor along fault-line in SE Alaska. The beach was elevated47 feet 4 inches on the west side of Disenchantment Bay. Yakutat Bay earthquake of September 1899. (Image credit: Collected Papers of Captain Nicholas Heck, NOAA Central Library; U. S. Geological Survey)
Credit
Collected Papers of Captain Nicholas Heck, NOAA Central Library; U. S. Geological Survey
Display Date
1899
Collection
Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey
Keywords
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Geophysics Seismology