Landslides : mass wasting, soil, and mineral hazards
Kusky, Timothy M.
Landslides : mass wasting, soil, and mineral hazards Timothy Kusky. - New York : Facts on File, [2008] - xvi, 128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - The hazardous Earth. . - Hazardous earth. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-120) and index.
Weathering and the formation of soils -- Hazardous elements in soils and the regolith -- Water in the regolith: expansive clays, liquefaction, and groundwater pollution -- Mass wasting processes -- Undersea landslides -- Landslide disasters -- Reduction of landslide hazards and damages.
"Examines the formation of soil from regolith--the outermost layer of Earth--and bedrock and discusses some of the hazardous elements that are concentrated in it"--P. [4] of cover.
9780816064656 0816064652
Landslides--Juvenile literature.
Mass-wasting--Juvenile literature.
Landslide hazard analysis--Juvenile literature.
QE 599.A2 / .K968 2008
Landslides : mass wasting, soil, and mineral hazards Timothy Kusky. - New York : Facts on File, [2008] - xvi, 128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - The hazardous Earth. . - Hazardous earth. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-120) and index.
Weathering and the formation of soils -- Hazardous elements in soils and the regolith -- Water in the regolith: expansive clays, liquefaction, and groundwater pollution -- Mass wasting processes -- Undersea landslides -- Landslide disasters -- Reduction of landslide hazards and damages.
"Examines the formation of soil from regolith--the outermost layer of Earth--and bedrock and discusses some of the hazardous elements that are concentrated in it"--P. [4] of cover.
9780816064656 0816064652
Landslides--Juvenile literature.
Mass-wasting--Juvenile literature.
Landslide hazard analysis--Juvenile literature.
QE 599.A2 / .K968 2008
