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On the cusp of failure

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Processes and triggers of deformation in big, slow-moving landslides are often unclear. The Slumgullion slide seems to stick and slip in tune with atmospheric tides.

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Figure 1: The Slumgullion landslide.

WILLIAM SCHULZ

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  1. Colin Stark is at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, New York 10964, USA. cstark@ldeo.columbia.edu,

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Stark, C. On the cusp of failure. Nature Geosci 2, 828–829 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo714

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