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PERSPECTIVE ON LANDSLIDE DAMS. PERSPECTIVE ON LANDSLIDE DAMS.
The most common types of mass movements that form landslide dams are rock and soil slumps and slides; mud, debris, and earth flows: and rock and debris avalanches. The most common initiation mechanisms for dam-forming landslides are excessive rainfall and snow melt, and earthquakes. Most landslide dams are remarkable short-lived. In a sample of 63 documented cases, 22 percent of the...
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Robert L. Schuster, John E. Costa
Book review of Slope Instability, D. Brunsden and D.B. Prior, eds., Wiley, New York, 620 p. Book review of Slope Instability, D. Brunsden and D.B. Prior, eds., Wiley, New York, 620 p.
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Richard M. Iverson
Signs of a northeastern earthquake? Signs of a northeastern earthquake?
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R.L. Kerr
Parkfield earthquake looks to be on schedule Parkfield earthquake looks to be on schedule
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R. A. Kerr
Maps of debris-flow features evident after the storms of December 1955 and January 1982, Montara Mountain area, California Maps of debris-flow features evident after the storms of December 1955 and January 1982, Montara Mountain area, California
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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey
Landslides Landslides
The slopes above streams and rivers are subjected to a variety of processes that cause them to recede and retreat from the river or stream channel. These processes, collectively called mass wasting, can be classified according to rapidity of movement and according to the type of materials that are transported. Gravity is the force behind all such downslope movement. Factors that enable...
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Europa: Characterization and interpretation of global spectral surface units Europa: Characterization and interpretation of global spectral surface units
The Voyager global multispectral mosaic of the Galilean satellite Europa (T. V. Johnson, L. A. Soderblom, J. A. Mosher, G. E. Danielson, A. F. Cook, and P. Kupferman, 1983, J. Geophys. Res. 88, 5789–5805) was analyzed to map surface units with similar optical properties (T. B. McCord, M. L. Nelson, R. N. Clark, A. Meloy, W. Harrison, T. V. Johnson, D. L. Matson, J. A. Mosher, and L...
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M. L. Nelson, T. B. McCord, Roger N. Clark, T. V. Johnson, D. L. Matson, J. A. Mosher, Laurence A. Soderblom
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska: May 1986 Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska: May 1986
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John B. Townshend, J.E. Papp, H.K. Rex, L.Y. Torrence
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska: November 1986 Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska: November 1986
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John B. Townshend, R. V. O’Connell, H.K. Rex, L.Y. Torrence