Landslides : mass wasting, soil, and mineral hazards / Timothy Kusky
Material type:
TextSeries: The hazardous EarthPublication details: New York : Facts on File, c2008Description: xvi, 128 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 0816064652
- 9780816064656
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UMPLIB GAMBANG | QE599.A2 .K87 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0000051179 |
Includes bibliographical references 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"
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