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BALT3 Landslide Monitoring Site - near Brisbane, CA

Detailed Description

The USGS “BALT3” site is located in San Mateo County, south of San Francisco, and consists of dataloggers monitoring the hillslope in the central part of the image.  This slope is typical for many in the San Francisco Peninsula region that have generated mobile debris flows in the past.  The area consists of grasslands over an approximately 1-meter-deep sandy soil layer, underlain by sandstone.

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