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Map showing landslides and areas of potential landsliding in the Salina quadrangle, Utah Map showing landslides and areas of potential landsliding in the Salina quadrangle, Utah
The term “landslide” is broadly defined as any “downward and outward movement of slope-forming materials composed of natural rock, soils, artificial fills, or combinations of these materials. The moving mass may proceed by any one of three principal types of movement: falling, sliding, or flossing, or by their combinations” (Varnes, 1958). Landslides and areas of potential landslides are...
Map showing length of freeze-free season in the Salina quadrangle, Utah Map showing length of freeze-free season in the Salina quadrangle, Utah
In general, long freeze-free periods occur at low elevations, and short freeze-free periods occur at high elevations. But some valley floors have shorter freeze-free seasons than the glancing foothills because air cooled at high elevations flows downward and is trapped in the valleys. This temperature pattern occurs in the western part of the quadrangle in Rabbit Valley, Grass Valley...