Landslides : mass wasting, soil, and mineral hazards Timothy Kusky.
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TextSeries: Hazardous earthPublisher: New York : Facts on File, [2008]Description: xvi, 128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780816064656
- 0816064652
- QE 599.A2 .K968 2008
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DLSU-D HS Learning Resource Center Reference | Reference | QE 599.A2 .K968 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 3HSL2014004253 |
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.
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