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Slump in progress on Corridor H

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Date: 2015-11-30 17:19:36
Blog: Mountain Beltway
URL: http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2015/11/30/slump-in-progress-on-corridor-h/

Summary:

I was out on Corridor H last week, looking at rocks with my Honors student, and on the way back from the field work, I noticed this: Click to enlarge That’s a fresh slump scarp running across a slope that is gradually sliding downhill. (The left half of the image is moving down relative to the right.) To judge from the rip-rap-filled culverts, this slope must have a previously-documented history …

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Click, Corridor, field work, fresh slump scarp, Honors student, image, left half, mass wasting, previously-documented history, progress, rip-rap-filled culverts, rocks, slope, way

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