Idaho from the Air

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Idaho From The Air Digital Geology of Digital Geology of Idaho Idaho NSF Geoscience Education Grant 03-31174

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Idaho From The Air

Digital Geology of Digital Geology of IdahoIdaho

NSF Geoscience Education

Grant 03-31174

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A Map of greater Idaho in late 1863 or early 1864. Courtesy: Special collections Division U. of W. Libraries, N979.5

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Flight from Pocatello north to Lolo Pass, Lewiston, Moscow,

Sandpoint, Dworshak Reservoir

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Pocatello, view to south of Portneuf Narrows, path of the Portneuf Basalt flow and the Bonneville Flood, Portneuf Basalt.

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Early morning fog lying low on American Falls Reservoir, view tonorth, sunrise, early October 2006.

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Big Southern Butte, a composite rhyolite dome, view to north. INL smokestack in middle distance, Howe Hills, Lemhi and Beaverhead Ranges in far distance.

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Arco Pass and south end of Lost River Range view to north. Big Lost River in foreground, in Box Canyon.

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Arco, view to north, sunrise, folded Mississippian limestone behind town, Big Lost River in foreground.

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Mackay Reservoir, with Upper Cedar Creek draining into it. View to northeast. Note that the creek is incised into older (Pleistocene) alluvial fans. Leatherman Peak is on far the left.

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East side Bitterroot Mountains west of Hamilton Montana.

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Clearwater River and switchback road to Weippe, Lolo Creek. Orofino in distance. Note prairies are underlain by Columbia River basalt.

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Mouth of Clearwater River, Lewiston. View to the north.

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Couer d’Alene

Mountains, Shoshone County,

Silver Valley

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Monocline in Columbia River Basalts, west of Lewiston

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Palouse, view north to Moscow, Idaho.

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University of Idaho, Moscow Idaho, view to north.

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Logging, St. Joe Mountains, south of Kellogg.

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North Fork Coeur d’ Alene river. Placer mining.

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Kellogg, Wardner gulch.

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Silver Mountain Ski Hill.

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View northeast at St. Maries. St. Joe River is draining toward the camera, from the east. St. Maries River is draining northwest from the right. Note meandering streams in sediment-choked valleys. This is the glacial outwash delta into Lake Coeur d’Alene.

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Distal end of St Maries River delta into Lake Coeur d’Alene.

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City of Coeur d’Alene and Resort, view to northwest. I-90 Freeway cuts through center of view.

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Spokane River, Rathdrum Prairie, view to north west of Post Falls.

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Clark Fork River. Clark Fork Cabinet Gorge. Dam site for Lake Missoula.

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Sandpoint, view to west.

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Sandpoint. Sand Creek and spit.

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North of Sandpoint. Glaciated Purcell Trench.

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Bonners Ferry, where Kootenai River comes out of Montana, flowing north into Canada and the Columbia. Cabinet Mountains on skyline.

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Kootenai River flowing north into Canada. Border is in mid ground. Goes north into Columbia trench which was filled with ice of the Cordilleran ice sheet.

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Selkirk Mountains, glaciated Cretaceous granite.

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Priest Lake, Cavanaugh Bay, view to north.

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Priest Lake, Soldier Creek, east side of lake.

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Checkerboard logging north of Priest Lake.

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Old Man Bridge, Dworshak Reservoir.

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Dworshak Dam and Clearwater River view to the west.

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North of Grangeville, Camas Prairie, view to southwest.

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Camas Prairie, Grangeville, Snake and

Salmon River confluence

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Camas Prairie Railroad Trestle.

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Columbia River basalts west of Riggins Cottonwood Creek on right?

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Confluence, Snake and Salmon coming in from the east.

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Twin Bridges, north of Slate Creek, view north to west dipping Columbia River Basalts, Oxbow in Salmon River.

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McCall and Cascade area, Tamarack Ski area

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Payette Lake, view to northern headwaters. Ponderosa Pine State Park on left.

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Cascade Reservoir, note pre-reservoir roads!

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Pocatello west to the Owyhee Plateau

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Incised delta and baymouth spit, American Falls Reservoir. Mouth of Portneuf River

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American Falls Dam.

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Eagle Rock Dam to Lake American Falls and Massacre Rocks area view downstream in Snake River.

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City of Rocks view to west.

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Twin Sisters, California Trail, view to southwest.

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Irrigated fields north of Oakley, Albion Range in far right distance.

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Dairy operation north of Buhl

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Snake River near Murtaugh, below Milner.

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Snake River at Perrine Bridge, Twin Falls.

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East of Glenns Ferry, near Paradise Valley.

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Bruneau Dunes State Park.

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Bruneau River, basalts.

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Jarbidge River, downstream from Murphy Hot Springs, Jacks Creek Rhyolite.

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Near Fruitland, Payette Co. Snake River view to north, Weiser River on right.

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Oxbow Dam, Hells Canyon

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Hells Canyon, Seven Devils,

South Fork Boise River,

Solider Mountains, Idaho batholith

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Hells Canyon Dam.

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Seven Devils Mountains

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View west across Seven Devils to Cuddy Mountains and Wallowa Mountains

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South Fork Boise River, Smoke fills Treasure Valley

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South Fork Boise River view to the east. Prairie on left.Canyon-filling basalts of two generations.

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Featherville, south Fork of the Boise River

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North end of the Sawtooths, South Fork Payette River headwaters.

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Sawtooth, Wood River, Pioneers,

Sun Valley

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North end of Sawtooths, Stanley Lake Creek.

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Redfish Lake, Mt Heyburn, tarns.

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View south of Wood River Valley and Boulder Mountains, from near Galena Summit.

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Sun Valley and Ketchum, view to west toward Bald Mountain and River Run lift base.

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Wood River Valley, Boulder Mountains in foreground, Pioneer Mountains in background. View to south at junction of North Fork of Wood River and main Wood River at the SNRA Headquarters.

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Pioneer Mountains core complex, view south up West fork Wildhorse Creek. Hyndman Peak in right skyline.

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Idaho From The Air

Digital Geology of Digital Geology of IdahoIdaho

NSF Geoscience Education

Grant 03-31174