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Machu Picchu at risk from Landslides

Written by Randy Post
Thursday, 10 May 2007
The world famous archaeological site, Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes Mountains may be at risk from landslides. A paper published by three Japanese researchers describes their field work and instrumentation of the site and their analyses. Read on for more info. (Photo by Jungle_Boy) View the paper here. The authors performed field work in 2000 and 2001 to supplement previous work performed by others. Talk about a sweet site for some field work! technorati tags: Machu Picchu landslide archaeology geotechnical engineering ! Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Show/Hide comment form
Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 September 2007 )