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BL
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| Record Number
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1008072
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b762442
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| Main Entry
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Kusky, Timothy M.
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| Title & Author
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Landslides : : mass wasting, soil, and mineral hazards /\ Timothy Kusky.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Facts on File,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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The hazardous Earth
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| Page. NO
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xvi, 128 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0816064652
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: 9780816064656
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-120) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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"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"--Page 4 of cover.
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Landslide hazard analysis, Juvenile literature.
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Landslides, Juvenile literature.
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Mass-wasting, Juvenile literature.
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Landslides.
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Landslide hazard analysis.
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Landslides.
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Landslides.
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Mass-wasting.
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| Dewey Classification
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551.3/07
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| LC Classification
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QE599.A2.K87 2008
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