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Deforestation Around the World<br />

Fig. 4. Topographic map of Yangjiashan Creeping (YC) slope (the upper map shows its<br />

location in China). Contours are surface elevation (m). Borehole locations are labeled with a<br />

red circle (e.g., BH06-9). Color shading indicates surface maximum attainable creeping<br />

speeds larger than 1mm/s, after a 50-year recurrence storm event. The primary sliding<br />

direction (red arrow) is determined according to subsiding and swelling belts. The X- and Yaxis<br />

are distances from the SE corner (29.9N, 109.1 E).<br />

The Yangjiashan community is situated on hills composed of inter-bedded siltstones and<br />

sandstones, occasionally interspersed with altered clay layers. The rocks range from highly to<br />

completely weathered at the ground surface. The weathered rocks date from the Paleozoic and<br />

Mesozoic eras, the 200-900 m thick yellowish interbedded sandstone and siltstone dates from

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