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Map showing relative amounts of landslides in California

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Authors
Dorothy H. Radbruch, Kenneth C. Crowther

The morphology and chronology of a landslide near Dillon Dam, Dillon, Colorado

Investigations were made of a landslide at the Dillon Dam site, Dillon, Colo., that included detailed laboratory and field analyses of the mineralogy, chemistry, and physical properties of landslide materials and the bedrock formations from which they were derived. These investigations provide an understanding of the relative importance of various factors contributing to the origin and reactivatio
Authors
E.E. Wahlstrom, T. C. Nichols

Landslide conditions along the Ferry County highway parallelling Lake Roosevelt from Kettle Falls to the mouth of the Spokane River, Washington

As part of the program of the U.S. Geological Survey, landslides are being studied in several localities in the United States. These studies are directed toward assembling criteria for recognition of landslides, classification, and cataloging of remedial or control methods that have been effective.  In the gorge of the Columbia Ricer in Washington, landslides of large magnitude have been active in
Authors
Fred O. Jones

The landslide of Sainte-Adresse cliff

The Sainte-Adresse Cliff in the neighborhood of Le Havre was subject in the past to repeated movements of greater of lesser scope which in 1944 have become markedly accentuated because of works on the "Atlantic Wall" and bomb and mine explosions. The situation became dangerous and required a complete study including geological and geotechnical surveys with borings and search of slip planes. The st
Authors
M. M. Buisson, Severine Britt
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