REPORT:
Analysis of a 24-Year Photographic Record of Nisqually Glacier, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

Table of Contents

• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Purpose and scope
    • Reasons for the program
    • Purpose of the report
    • Selection of study area
  • Previous investigations
    • Photographs
    • Surveys and maps
  • Acknowledgments
• Description of the area
  • Physiography
  • Climate
• The photographic program
  • Network of stations
  • Photographic series not published
  • Time of year and weather conditions
  • Camera equipment
  • Light conditions
  • Scale corrections on prints
• Quantitative interpretations from the photographs
  • Changes in ice thickness
  • Changes in lateral ice margins
  • Longitudinal slope of the ice surface
  • Snow lines and firn edges
• Qualitative interpretations
  • Characteristics of the terminus
  • Debris cover and its distribution
  • Moraines
  • Crevassing and general character of the glacier surface
    • Terminus to profile 1
    • Profile 1 to about 1,000 feet (300 meters) above profile 2
    • 1,000 feet (300 meters) above profile 2 to above profile 3
  • Erosion and deposition
    • Banks and lateral moraines
    • Outburst floods
      • Flood of October 14, 1932
      • Flood of October 24-25, 1934
      • Flood of October 25, 1955
    • Natural changes below glacier from floods and other causes
• Conclusions
• Recommended photographic procedures
  • Photographic stations
  • Optimum light conditions
  • Selecting the view
  • Equipment
  • Recording the photographic data
• References

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