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Landslide susceptibility in San Mateo County, California Landslide susceptibility in San Mateo County, California
Information on areas susceptible to failure by landsliding is available in many general geologic maps and reports. However, it is commonly presented in complex, technical language, together with data not connected with slope stability. This derivative map is intended to convey such information in nontechnical form so that it will be intelligible to the non-geologist. It portrays only...
Map Showing Areas Containing Swelling Clay in the Morrison Quadrangle, Jefferson County, Colorado Map Showing Areas Containing Swelling Clay in the Morrison Quadrangle, Jefferson County, Colorado
Formations that contain clays having swelling pressures higher than 2,500 pounds per square foot (as measured by the Potential Volume Change meter) are listed in order of decreasing swelling pressure: Denver Formation, Pierre Shale, Laramie Formation, Green Mountain Conglomerate, Fox Hills Sandstone, and Arapahoe Formation. Some landslides derived from these formations also contain...