Landslides : mass wasting, soil, and mineral hazards
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Timothy M Kusky
- ناشر : New York : Facts on File
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9780816064656
Description
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"--P. [4] of cover.
