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Kansas Geological Survey, Current Research in Earth Sciences, Bulletin 244, part 3
The Relationship Between Geology and Landslide Hazards of Atchison, Kansas, and Vicinity--Fig. 10


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Fig. 10. Different types of landslide movement. (A) Falls occur where a block of material free-falls from a slope. (B) Topples involve rotation of a block of material along an axis at the base of the block. (C) Slides occur where a relatively intact mass of material moves along a basal failure plane. (D) Flows occur where motion is distributed throughout the landslide mass approaching fluid-like behavior.





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