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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 ...
Colorado geologists: Landslide danger still present on Grand Mesa
The Denver Post   01 October 2015   USA   Colorado  
An Aerial view of the Mesa County Mudslide (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)
<p>A new report on last year's massive landslide near the western Colorado town of Collbran says conditions remain that could prompt another disaster of comparable magnitude.<br>The 55-page Colorado Geological Survey study says risks remain specifically because ...
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