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Article: UCSB Scientists Study Ancient Debris Flow That Formed Rocky Topography of Santa Barbara Parks.
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- November 21, 2001
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Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The next "big one" in Santa Barbara may not be an earthquake but a boulder-carrying flood, according to Edward A. Keller, professor of geological sciences and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his graduate student, Amy J. Selting.
Keller and Selting are studying the origin and history of a large prehistoric debris flow they call the Mission debris flow, in Santa Barbara. Selting presented a paper, co-authored by Keller, on the origin of the debris flow at the annual meeting of The Geological Society of America in ...