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Investigating Land Subsidence and Earth Fissure Hazards

August 29th, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

“The Arizona Land Subsidence Interest Group, a cadre of Earth scientists, geotechnicians, and geological engineers, have formulated the first guidelines for the professional geotechnical community in their investigations of land subsidence and earth fissure hazards in south-central Arizona.” Quoted from the Arizona Geological Survey press release.

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Teaching About Soil: Free CD for Educators

May 1st, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

The National Resource Conservation Service offers a CD-ROM titled “Soils – Tools for Educators,” which includes soil facts, state-specific soil information, lesson plans, and more. The CD is designed for middle and high school instructors.

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Information for Arizona Homeowners and Buyers

August 5th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

The Arizona Geological Survey has lots of geologic hazards information for homeowners and home buyers that can be downloaded and viewed immediately for free from their website. Their webpage for real estate hazards includes information on floods, earthquakes, problem soils, mass movements, subsidence and earth fissures, radon, karst, abandon mines, volcanic hazards, radon

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Soil Maps and Data Online

July 18th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

You can use the Web Soil Survey to access soil maps and data for 95 percent of the counties in the United States.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Geologycom/~4/kXwjqriK9nQ” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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