EPIC - Geologic Features Collection: Weathering Set I
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Sheeting, Yosemite. (K. Hamblin)
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Exfoliation, Tenaya Lake. (D. Easterbrook)
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Weathering and wave erosion, Kangaroo Island, Australia. (K. Hamblin)
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Spheroidal weathering near Dry Falls, WA. (D. J. Easterbrook)
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Spheroidal weathering. (K. Hamblin)
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Spheroidal weathering in basalt, central WA. (W. Wash. U. Collection)
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Exfoliation arches in sandstone near Zion National Park, UT (D. Rahm)
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Weathering and wave erosion, Kangaroo Island, Australia. (K. Hamblin)
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Pedestal weathering. (K. Hamblin)
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Block sliding along joint planes in sandstone near Bellingham, WA. (D. Easterbrook)
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Block sliding along intersecting joints Lake Keechelus, WA. (D. Easterbrook)
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Block sliding along intersection joint planes, Valdez, AK. (D. Easterbrook)
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Block sliding along intersection joint planes, Valdez, AK. (D. Easterbrook)
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Slide Lake, dammed by the Gros Venture landslide, WY. (J. Shelton)
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Landslide down the dip of a bedding plane, Gros Vente, WY. (J. Shelton)
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Hebgen Lake landslide, MT. (K. Hamblin)
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Hebgen Lake landslide, MT. (D. Rahm)
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Hebgen Lake landslide, MT. (D. Easterbrook)
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Landslide debris about 400 feet up the valley side on the opposite side of the Hebgen Lake landslide, MT. (D. Easterbrook)
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Landslide near Haiming, Austria, which caused welding of slide blocks from frictional heat. (D. Easterbrook)
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Cracks forming in street and sidewalk from slope failure, Daly City, CA. (D. Easterbrook)
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Crack in slumped road, Smith Creek near Bellingham, WA. (D. Easterbrook)
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Crack forming from block sliding into the sea, Mahon, Menorca, Spain. (D. Easterbrook)
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Slump blocks along the rim of a mesa. (D. Easterbrook)
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Slumps along a valley side. (J. Shelton)
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Slumps in a roadcut near Palo Alto, CA. (J. Shelton)
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Puente Hills slide, CA. (J. Shelton)
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Backward rotated slump blocks downstream from Navajo bridge, AR. (D. Easterbrook)
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Rotated travertine blocks in a landslide, Mammoth, Yellowstone National Park, WY. (D. Easterbrook)
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Slide covering highway, Pacific Pallisades, CA. (J. Shelton)
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Landslide, Saddle Mountains, WA. (D. Rahm)
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Multiple landslides, Horse Heaven Hills, Yakima Valley, WA. (D.A. Rahm)
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Landslide, Yakima Valley, WA. (D.A. Rahm)
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Earthflow, Saddle Mts., WA. (D.A. Rahm)
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Toe of slide, Thermal, CA. (J. Shelton)
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Landslide near Rock Island, WA. (D. Rahm)
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Shallow, 1-km-long slump on thixotropic clay near Ottowa, Canada. (D. Easterbrook)
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Small landslide, Coast Mts., CA. (J. Shelton)
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Mudflow in weathered volcanic rocks, ID. (J. Shelton)
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Blackhawk slide, CA, a very mobile rock slide on a cushion of air. (J. Shelton)
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Talus cones, Banff, Alberta. (K. Hamblin)
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Talus cones near Bow Lake, Alberta. (D. J. Easterbrook)
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Talus blocks, Lees Ferry, AZ. (K. Hamblin)
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Cross-section through talus near Vantage, WA. (D. Easterbrook)
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Tilted shale beds bent downslope by creep, England. (K. Hamblin)
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Slope failure from logging road collapse that caused debris torrents downvalley, near Bellingham, WA. (D. Easterbrook)
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Slope failure from logging road collapse that caused debris torrents downvalley, near Bellingham, WA. (D. Easterbrook)
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Wreckage caused by debris torrent, Smith Creek near Bellingham, WA. (D. Easterbrook)
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