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Landslide susceptibility map of part of the New Kensington East 7 1/2-minute Quadrangle, Allegheny County and vicinity, Pennsylvania Landslide susceptibility map of part of the New Kensington East 7 1/2-minute Quadrangle, Allegheny County and vicinity, Pennsylvania
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Authors
W.E. Davies
Landslide susceptibility and land modified by man map of part of the Aliquippa 7-1/2' Quadrangle, Allegheny County and vicinity, Pennsylvania Landslide susceptibility and land modified by man map of part of the Aliquippa 7-1/2' Quadrangle, Allegheny County and vicinity, Pennsylvania
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Authors
John S. Pomeroy
Landslides Landslides
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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey
Two diamictons in a landslide scarp on Admiralty Island, Alaska, and the tectonic insignificance of an intervening peat bed Two diamictons in a landslide scarp on Admiralty Island, Alaska, and the tectonic insignificance of an intervening peat bed
Two till-like diamictons, 700 feet above present sea level on Admiralty Island, Alaska, are separated by peat near the top of a landslide scarp. The lower diamicton is glaciomarine; the upper diamicton is probably a mudflow. The lower diamicton contains the foraminifer Elphidium clavatum Cushman, a species typical of fiords. Similar diamicton crops out along Gastineau Channel near Juneau...
Authors
Robert D. Miller
The landslide at Cumberland, Harlan County, Kentucky The landslide at Cumberland, Harlan County, Kentucky
A landslide developed on Sanctified Hill, on the east side of Cumberland, Kentucky on December 10, 1972. Since then the slide has rendered 17 dwellings and a church unusable. The slide is in a shallow amphitheater, on plastic sandy clay up to 30 feet thick, lying on top of sandstone and shale (Norton Formation). The bedrock dips 22° south, the same direction as the slope of the hill. The...
Authors
William E. Davies
Landslides in the vicinity of the Fort Randall Reservoir, South Dakota Landslides in the vicinity of the Fort Randall Reservoir, South Dakota
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Authors
Christopher F. Erskine