Avalanches Landslides
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Avalanche and Landslide Alert!
Author: Amanda Bishop
language: en
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Release Date: 2005
Awesome and destructive forces are unleashed when soil, mud, and snow are on the move. Aimed at ages 7-14, this book looks at the causes and effects, places in danger, and how people cope with these disasters. It features photographs feature famous disasters.
Catastrophic Landslides
Author: Stephen G. Evans
language: en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date: 2002-01-01
This volume documents advances in our knowledge of catastrophic landslides, providing a worldwide survey of catastrophic landslide events. It draws on South America to illustrate dramatically the impact of these phenomena on human populations. The occurrence of catastrophic landslides, including site-specific insights, is shown through six events of the past 20 years. Several other chapters focus on the mechanisms involved with catastrophic landsides both in relation to geologic factors in a particular geographic area as well as to specific geologic processes.