Chapter 9-Mass Wasting
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mass wasting-overviews
mass wasting lecture*
avalalanche
about avalanches
avalanche awareness
avalanches-a fatal attraction
avalanches-general information
creep
landslide types-creep
landslide stabilization*
debris flows
debris flow hazards-Utah
debris flows-USGS
landslide and debris flow
landslide animation
debris flow images
lahar
landslides-lahars (scroll down)
lahar detection system
lahar description-USGS
lahars-lecture*
landslides
virtual field trip to Marcus landslide, Arizona*
mudflows
mudflow in Italy
Mt. St. Helens mudflow
mudflows and floods-USGS
mudflow photos
mud slides
landslides and mudslides
rock falls
landslides-rock falls (scroll down)
rock slides
landslides-rock slides (scroll down)
slump and slump blocks
slumps*
slumps in North Dakota*
slumps
talus slopes
talus slope photo
talus slope-short description
talus slope-Colorado

landslides
     case studies
super site  of case studies***
      Arizona
Landslide-Payson area-2008 *
     Gros Ventre, Wyoming
Gros Ventre landslide photo
Gros Ventre slide geological area
Gros Ventre-small photo
Gros Ventre landslide photos
     Idaho
landslides in Idaho
Albion Range, Idaho landslides
     Japan
landslides in Japan
Motochi earthflow photo*
mud slides in Japan
     links
mudflows, debris flows and lahars-links
natural hazards-landslides-USGS
mass movement links
     land use planning
Is your house creeping on a reactivated landslide?
landslide zonation for hill area development
     overviews
landslide overview
landslides and slope failure
     Pt. Fermin
Pt. Fermin and the sunken city
     Portuguese Bend, California
Portuguese Bend-Palos Verdes
Portuguese Bend map
Portuguese Bend landslide
California landslide
     Slumgullion, Colorado
kinematic studies of the Slumgullion landslide
Slumgullion landslide-USGS
papers on the slumgullion landslide
     triggered by earthquakes
landslides associated with the Northridge earthquake
landslide links-USGS
probe for predicting landslides
     types
landslide types*
description and causes of mass movement
mass wasting and its human impacts*

mass wasting
     glossary
glossary of mass movement terms
landslides in British Columbia-glossary
mass wasting definitions
     overviews
lecture on mass wasting and erosion
landslide hazards-USGS*
geology and El Nino in the desert (landslides)*
mass movement (test and photos)*
mass movement home page
factors influencing mass wasting
mass wasting-University of Colorado
     references
list of books about landslides