The driving force behind tropical mudslides
E-Mail IMAGE: Nicolas Pérez-Consuegra hammering into a rock outcrop to obtain a sample for thermochronology analyses from the mountains in the Putumayo region of Colombia. view more Credit: Syracuse University In April 2017, a landslide in Mocoa, Colombia, ripped through a local town, killing more than 300 people. Nicolás Pérez-Consuegra grew up about 570 miles north in Santander, Colombia, and was shocked as he watched the devastation on television. At that time, he was an undergraduate intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. As a budding geologist raise...
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