Digital photographs of outdoor environments

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1: Image of Clayton peak, head of Big Cottonwood Canyon. Silver Lake in the foreground. A glacial lake which once occupied the whole plain in front of the hotel.
2: Image of the dip and strike of the Cambrian shales, slates and quartzite. The stake is the foreground shows the dip which corresponds to that of the peak above. The dip is about 80 degrees. View looking southeast and across the canyon.
3: Image of stratification of the Cambrian quartzite and shales. This shows the general curve of the formation which circles around the granite. View looking west and about parallel with the canyon.
4: View just back of No. 3 showing stratified shales and slates.
5: Image of view taken from top of cleft in the middle of No. 3 This shows the continuation of the stratification going eastward. No. 2 is taken just beyond the right hand limits of this photograph.
6: View of the Cambrian slates mentioned by Clarence King as crossing the roadway at the bottom of Big Cottonwood Canyon.
7: View of stratified slates showing dip. This photograph was taken about a half mile father up the canyon from the former ones. In the foreground is the flume which conveys the water to the Utah Power and Gas plant.
8: General view of Beck's Hot springs. The spring issues from the point near the middle of the photograph.
9: General view, looking south, of the faulted crust block near the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon.
10: View showing the fault scarp as it crosses the south moraine of Little Cottonwood Canyon. In the lower left-hand corner is shown the railroad cutting through the Morainic material.
11: Image of Bonneville and intermediate shore lines. View taken from near the mouth of Dry Canyon. In the extreme right is shown the bluffs and quarries at the mouth of Red Butte in the red Triassic sandstone formation
12: View of the contact between archeain quartzite and the granite, South side of Little Cottonwood Canyon.
13: Image of medial moraine about five miles up Little Cottonwood Canyon.
14: Image of perched, granite boulders on quartzite formation north side of mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. In the background is shown the main mass of the granite
15: Morainic mass extending across Little Cottonwood Canyon. This view was taken about seven or eight miles up the canyon. The size of the mass can be judged from the pine trees growing upon it, some of which are about fifty feet tall.
16: Image of Lower Twin Lake, head of Big Cottonwood Canyon. In all Probability this is a glacial lake. In the background is shown the granite ridge which separates Big from Little Cottonwood Canyon.
17: View showing quartzite bluffs just inside the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. Where the figure is standing there is a mass of apparently igneous matter which has come from a fault.
18: View of a snow slide in Little Cottonwood Canyon. This photograph was taken about the middle of June.
19: Quartzite bluffs, this view was taken from the top of the cleft in the No. 3 at the very top is a layer consisting almost entirely of riffle marks.
20: View of the Wasatch, looking from the Point of the Mountain into Utah Valley, Timpanogos Peak in the distance.
21: Outcrop of quartzite near the Point of the Mountain. Traverse Mountains in the right hand and Lone Peak Ridge in the left hand side of the Photograph.
22: Image of Lake Mary a probable glacial lake of the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon.
23: Image of Mount Millicent, a granite peak at the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon.

Dates

early to mid 1900s

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