Landslides are common features in the Serra do Mar, located along the southeastern Brazilian coast, most of them associated with intense summer storms, specially on the soil-mantled steep hillslopes around Rio de Janeiro city, where the favelas (slums) proliferated ...

<p>In this paper, a simple model for compression of a tectonic wedge is combined with estimates of plate convergence and erosion rates to examine whether compression across the Pacific-North American plate boundary could account for significant late Cenozoic ...