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Other Resource Links: Earth Science Animations: Mass Wasting Animations Links
  1. LINK BAY AREA SLUMP
    DESCRIPTION USGS, this MPEG simulation sequences a 1997 slump in San Mateo County, located within the San Francisco Bay Area. After a long period of rain, a fissure opened at the crest of the slope and the slump progressed down hill. The animation captures movement over an eight day period with an average movement of a few feet per day. Over 250,000 tons of rock and soil moved in this landslide.
  2. LINK DEEP SEATED LANDSLIDE
    DESCRIPTION Wiley, find a USGS animation showing the conditions leading to a San Francisco Bay area bedrock landslide. The scene begins with a flyby of the Bay Area showing the considerable relief of the region. The focus then shifts to the subsurface conditions, an impermeable rock layer above a permeable rock layer, responsible for creating a landslide after a period of rain. Expect long loading times.
  3. LINK EARTH FLOW
    DESCRIPTION Wiley, this Flash animation with accompanying audio exhibits the different stages involved in the formation of an earth flow. A step-like scarp forms along with a flowage zone at the toe of the earth flow. The sequence concludes with the stabilization of the earth flow with vegetation. Expect long loading times.
  4. LINK JAPANESE LANDSLIDE VIDEO
    DESCRIPTION Ebaumsworld, spectacular .WMV format video of a recent landslide in Japan that destroyed a road and produced a massive hillside scar.
  5. LINK LANDSLIDE TYPES
    DESCRIPTION McGraw Hill, this Flash animation displays in quick sequence four different mass wasting events: earthflow, translational slump, rotational slump, and rock fall. Images are attractive but there is little in the way of causative factors involved in mass wasting. To access the animation Click on the “Flow Slide Fall” link.
   

 

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