They stumbled on some landslides by chance. Others were identified earlier with the help of their Lamont colleague Colin Stark, an expert in using earthquake data and satellite images to discover landslides in remote places. Picking through dense shrubs, Kaplan climbed a pile of rubble to hammer away more samples for dating in the lab.
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