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Slumgullion; Colorado’s natural landslide laboratory
The mammoth Slumgullion landslide in southwestern Colorado is the largest actively moving landslide in Colorado and, perhaps, the entire country. To learn more about how and why landslides move the way they do, scientists at the U.S Geological Survey (USGS) have observed and monitored the remarkably regular movement of this landslide for more than 30 years. Located near Lake City in the San Juan M
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L.M. Highland
Water fact sheet, history of landslides and debris flows at Mount Rainier
Many landslides and debris flows have originated from Mount Rainier since the retreat of glaciers from Puget Sound about 10,000 years ago. The recurrent instability is due to several factors--height of the steep-sided volcanic cone, frequent volcanic activity, continuous weakening of rock by steam and hot, chemical-laden water, and exposure of unstable areas as the mountains glaciers have receded.
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K. M. Scott, J.W. Vallance
Submarine landslides: Selected studies in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
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William C. Schwab, Homa J. Lee, David C. Twichell
Isolated carbonate bodies composed of stacked debris-flow deposits on a fine-grained carbonate lower slope of Devonian age, Antelope Peak, Elko County, Nevada
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Peter M. Sheehan, John M. Pandolfi, Keith B. Ketner
Kinematics of the Aspen Grove landslide, Ephraim Canyon, central Utah
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Rex L. Baum, Robert W. Fleming, Arvid M. Johnson
Steady movement of landslides in fine-grained soils; a model for sliding over an irregular slip surface
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Rex L. Baum, Arvid M. Johnson
Landslide hazards in Vermont
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Charles A. Baskerville, Fitzhugh T. Lee, Charles A. Ratte
Description, origin, and implications of a newly identified Slumgullion landslide deposit, San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado
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A.F. Chleborad
Map of debris-flow hazard in the Honolulu District of Oahu, Hawaii
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Stephen D. Ellen, Robert K. Mark, Susan H. Cannon, Donna L. Knifong
Landslides triggered by Hurricane Hugo in eastern Puerto Rico, September 1989
On the morning of September 18, 1989, a category-four hurricane struck eastern Puerto Rico with a sustained wind speed in excess of 46 m/s. The 24-h rainfall accumulation from the hurricane ranged from 100 to 339 mm. Average rainfall intensities ranging from 34 to 39 mm/h were calculated for 4 and 6 h periods, respectively, at a rain gage equipped with satellite telemetry, and at an observer stati
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Matthew C. Larsen, Angel J. Torres-Sanchez