Dating an Earlier Slide
By Andrew Alden, About.com Guide
On old topographic maps I found my smoking gun: between 1947 and 1959, landslides severed a continuous road. Contours near the main 2006 slide also had changed.
U.S. Geological Survey image served by the Earth Science and Map Library, UC Berkeley
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