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Oregon Landslides and Coastal Erosion
December 17, 2009 | Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries has new landslide inventory maps for the Canby Quadrangle and a report on coastal erosion in Clatsop County.

They also have an article on “Seeing landslides with lidar“.


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