Bringing the landslide laboratory to remote regions

Thanks to millions of years' accumulation of the wind-deposited, highly-porous sediment from which China's Loess plateau takes its name, the region has been called the most erosion-prone on Earth. However, despite the prominent geomorphic role gravity erosion plays on the slopes, the process isn't well understood due to the complexity of soil failure occurrence and behavior.

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