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Relationships of clay mineralogy to landscape stability in Western Oregon

Creator:

Taskey, Ronald D. (Ronald David), 1944-

Abstract:

Soil erosion by mass wasting is the major problem on forest lands of the Pacific Northwest, The clay fractions of soils from a large number of sites in Oregon's Western Cascades were characterized in order to determine the relationships of various clay materials to mass movements. Each site was either...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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Pope and Anderson, 1960; Swanson and James, 1975); furthermore, major land failures have frequently