{"id":1627,"date":"2014-05-06T08:21:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2014-05-06T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T16:21:50","slug":"update-commentary-on-the-oso-slide-scott-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=1627","title":{"rendered":"Update Commentary on the OSO Slide: Scott Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Burns, emeritus at Portland State and a student of Peter Birkeland, wrote an excellent article about the OSO Slide. I made a few animations and armchair interpretations about this slide shortly after it happened (<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=1425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>).<br \/>\nScott discusses the geologic history and how heavy rainfall was a likely co-conspirator that led to the triggering of this horribly destructive landslide. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthmagazine.org\/article\/voices-oso-landslide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a> is the article.<br \/>\nThis is a general location map:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/landslides\/20140322_oso_WA\/202322_ST_map.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nHere is an animation from David George and Dick Iverson at the USGS:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2NzHCOhKr7g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAs a reminder, here is a map showing the historic landslides in the area:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/landslides\/20140322_oso_WA\/ofr2014-1065_fig_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/landslides\/20140322_oso_WA\/ofr2014-1065_fig_2.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is the geologic mapping done at the 1:24,000 scale published by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Click on the map below to see the entire map. Below is a clip of the map in the region of the OSO Landslide of 2014. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/landslides\/20140322_oso_WA\/oso_24k_clip.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to see this inset map in a new browser window. Note the location of a dotted strike slip fault in the region of the OSO slide.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/landslides\/20140322_oso_WA\/mounthiggins_24k_geologic_map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/landslides\/20140322_oso_WA\/oso_24k_clip.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nScott Burns, emeritus at Portland State and a student of Peter Birkeland, wrote an excellent article about the OSO Slide. I made a few animations and armchair interpretations about this slide shortly after it happened (here). Scott discusses the geologic&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=1627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Update Commentary on the OSO Slide: Scott Burns&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[50,5,6,7,16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}