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Duncan Canal-Zarembo Island Area, Southeastern Alaska Olistoliths http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99 http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open file/of99-168/of99 168/of99-168 168-pamphlet.html pamphlet.html
Slide layers and slumps �� Slide layers are layers of sediment that were deposited due to sediment slides, slumps or debris-flows. debris flows. �� Sediment slides are described as “slope slope failures in which the sediment was deformed and fluidized during its transport downslope, downslope, resulting in highly deformed layering and ultimately a slurry, or debris flow” flow (Jacobi, 1984)
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