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Bringing the landslide laboratory to remote regions
Science Daily   12 April 2016   China   Loess Plateau  
This is a movable lab for field study of gravity erosion on the Loess Plateau of China. Credit: X.-Z. Xu/DLUT
<p>Thanks to millions of years' accumulation of the wind-deposited, highly-porous sediment from which China's Loess plateau takes its name, the region has been called the most erosion-prone on Earth. However, despite the prominent geomorphic role gravity erosion ...