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On relatively gentle slopes of the Coast Ranges of central California the debris involved in soil slips frequently breaks up into clods immediately after slipping has started, instead of remaining together and forming a bulging tongue. A group of such slips, here called "disintegrating soil slips," is pictured and described, and their origin is interpreted.
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John E. Kesseli (1943) studied this question.
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