NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
- FARGO, N D
SLUMP AT ABERCROMBIE, N.D.
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Slumping threatens the Fort Abercrombie Historic Site on the Red River of the North, just east of Abercrombie, North Dakota. The river passes through a broad meander here, with cutbank erosion helping to induce bank instability.
As is common, this slump terminates in an earthflow-like form.
(Photo by D.P. Schwert, North Dakota State University, 1999).
[ Mass Wasting Features of North Dakota ]
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