TY - BOOK AU - Kusky,Timothy M. TI - Landslides: mass wasting, soil, and mineral hazards T2 - The hazardous Earth SN - 9780816064656 AV - QE 599.A2 .K968 2008 PY - 2008///] CY - New York PB - Facts on File KW - Landslides KW - Juvenile literature KW - Mass-wasting KW - Landslide hazard analysis N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0720/2007024674.html ER -