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April 14, 2016

Bringing the landslide laboratory to remote regions
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 14, 2016
It'd be hard to overstate how landslide-prone China's Loess Plateau is; thanks to millions of years' accumulation of the wind-deposited, highly-porous sediment from which the plateau takes its name, the region has been called the most erosion-prone on Earth. However, despite the prominent geomorphic role gravity erosion plays on the slopes - which affects an area of more than 200,000 square kilometers in the upper and middle reaches of China's Yellow River - the process isn't well understood due t ... read more

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