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Newly uplifted seafloor along fault-line in SE Alaska

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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.

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