Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1914 Fifty-ninth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- Exhibit title:
- Landslides and upheavals in the Panama Canal
- Exhibitor:
- Vaughan Cornish
- Section:
- Scientific and Technical Photographs, &c.
- Exhibit No.:
- 555
- Description:
- A "hump" at the bottom of the Culebra Cut in 1910, looking east. The unbalanced pressure of the banks causes the material in seams of weak rock to flow, and if the seam be a little below the level of the floor of the cut the moving material bursts through, as shown in the photograph.
The foot of the Great Cucuracha Slide, February, 1914, looking north.
The slope of the material in the foreground is that at which the volcanic sediments flow after breaking from the parent hill. The background shows the step slope to which Gold Hill has been excavated. This hill is composed of compact eruptive rock, and stands firm on the steep slope, although the escarpment is 500 feet high. - Exhibit type:
- Photographic equipment and supplies
- Process:
- [Not Listed] ()
- Award:
- none
