LANDSLIDE HAZARDS

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OmniWeb Sources



The U.S. Geological Survey Home Page is one of the better ones, and a good place to start.



Here are some interesting items currently available on "The Web":

Tully Valley Landslide

A fascinating account of a landslide case history in the Finger Lakes region of New York presented in the singular style of the U.S. Geological Survey!


"Landslid"

A collection of approximately 20 images (like the one at the top of my home page), with brief text, available via PSINet.



Do your own searching...

Press Here to access the World Wide Web Virtual Library.


The British Geological Survey lists a searchable database for Geotechnical engineering / engineering geology topics, though I haven't been able to access it successfully.


The EINet Galaxy is a web server that contains information on landslides under "Environmental Science."

Use the Web Crawler to search for currently available information on "landslides" or other related topics (ie. erosion or geomorphology).


Access Gopher's Veronica or EINet's Gopher Jewels


For other general starting information, click on Surfing the Internet!

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Extraterrestrial Landsliding

Contains images and accompanying text regarding a landslide discovered in the Aphrodite Terra area of Venus viewed by Magellan.

Emergency Management (on Earth)

Provides information on catastrophe preparation from FEMA ,and GSA's role in federal emergency management.

News Groups

Here is a link to a geology news group which may post useful information.

Library References

At this point, the greatest amount of information is available as "hard copy" literature. Use the following for library searches:

Bibliography

Contains a brief bibliography of available references on the topic of "landslides".

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