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Swiss village Brienz to be evacuated due to rockslide risk

Swissinfo 09 Nov 2024
+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox If the moving rock mass reaches high velocity, it could slide past the existing alluvial fan and reach the village ... It ... .
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Tranquil retreats for parents: Finding serenity amidst the bustle

Independent online (SA) 27 Sep 2024
More correctly an alluvial fan, the delta coversup to 15 000km² of Kalahari Desert in northern Botswana and owes its existence to the Okavango (Kavango) River that flows from the Angolan highlands, ...
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Fossil site in Massachusetts reveals 320-million-year-old ecosystem

Phys Dot Org 19 Sep 2024
The Wamsutta Formation represents deposition in seasonally wet, forested alluvial fan environments near the paleoequator ... a diverse ecosystem on a subhumid, alluvial fan, Nature Communications (2024).
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320-million-year-old fossil site found in US unveils early Pennsylvanian secrets

Interesting Engineering 19 Sep 2024
The site reveals a diverse ecosystem of early land-dwelling animals and plants from a poorly understood period ... The Wamsutta Formation represents deposition in seasonally wet, forested alluvial fan environments near the paleo equator ... .
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Notes from Central Taiwan: Taiwan’s nuclear power boondoggle

Taipei Times 25 Aug 2024
By Michael Turton / Contributing reporter ... 20, 2024) ... POWER DEMAND ... In the Chuoshui River alluvial fan area of Changhua and Yunlin, according to government data cited in local research, there are over 170,000 such pumps, causing severe subsidence ... .
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NCHM identifies convective thunderstorm as likely cause of Dechencholing flood

Kuensel 16 Aug 2024
Thinley Namgay ... There were also signs of flooding in most of the tributaries ... Dechencholing is situated on an alluvial fan of the Dechencholing chhu, and there was evidence of floods having occurred in the past at Dechencholing, according to the NCHM.
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Rocks collected on Mars hold key to water and perhaps life on the planet: Bring ...

Science Daily 14 Aug 2024
... rover collected seven samples of sediment from an ancient alluvial fan in Jezero crater.
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Country diary: A valley revived, as far as the eye can see | Merryn Glover

The Guardian 14 Aug 2024
Glen Feshie, Cairngorms national park, Scotland ... It’s a sunny morning when we pedal up through the pine forests along its western banks ... Much of the route we cycle now is a glacial trough, marked by river terraces and alluvial fans ....
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Country diary: A valley revived, as far as the eye can see

AOL 14 Aug 2024
The Feshie is a river of time and change. It’s a sunny morning when we pedal up through the pine forests along its western banks ... Much of the route we cycle now is a glacial trough, marked by river terraces and alluvial fans ... • Under the Changing Skies.
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Oswit Land Trust buys Happy Valley in Indio Hills for $4 million

Desert Sun 07 Aug 2024
Video. See the proposed Chuckwalla National Monument ... The property is described by the trust as a "spectacular, undisturbed alluvial fan with diverse vegetation and significant value to native wildlife." ... She can be reached at [email protected]
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Red Rocks geology: How the world's only natural amphitheater was formed

The Hill 15 Jul 2024
The sedimentary rock that eroded from the early Rocky Mountains was deposited in large alluvial fans, and that layer of rock is now called the Fountain Formation.
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FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION ORDINANCE

Sanborn Weekly Journal 28 Jun 2024
Alluvial Fan Floodingmeans flooding occurring on the surface of an alluvial fan or similar landform that originates at the apex ... Apex means a point on an alluvial fan or similar landform below which ...
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Three people missing after landslide in Switzerland

Swissinfo 22 Jun 2024
One woman was found alive in the scree on Saturday morning ... + Read more ... An alluvial fan affected several homes, and police estimate that a total of four people were buried ... Elsewhere in the southern canton ... .
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Woonsocket City Council proceedings

Sanborn Weekly Journal 21 Jun 2024
Alluvial Fan Flooding means flooding occurring on the surface of an alluvial fan or similar landform that originates at the apex ... Apex means a point on an alluvial fan or similar landform below which ...
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Smoke trees bloom in the desert in June: Learn more about its beauty and why it's revered

Desert Sun 01 Jun 2024
12. Palm Springs Desert Sun. From the archive ... Keylon illustrates the Eden story with the modern images of photographer Millicent Harvey, who each June treks through the desert washes and up alluvial fans to capture the smoke tree show.

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