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Excerpt from Engineering Geology and Design of Slopes for Cretaceous Potomac Deposits in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Vicinity Potomac Formation deposits crop out or are near the ground surface in a belt that includes parts of large metropolitan areas such as Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md. Both naturally occurring and construction-related landslides are commonplace and widespread in this belt and cause serious land-use problems. Landslides often take place many years after slopes are excavated in clay-rich sediments of the Potomac Formation, and the results can be disastrous to unsuspecting home owners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.