Landslides

Types, Mechanisms and Modeling

By: John J. Clague (Editor), Douglas Stead (Editor)

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Hardcover | 23 August 2012

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Landslides have geological causes but can be triggered by natural processes (rainfall, snowmelt, erosion and earthquakes) or by human actions such as agriculture and construction. Research aimed at better understanding slope stability and failure has accelerated in recent years, accompanied by basic field research and numerical modeling of slope failure processes, mechanisms of debris movement, and landslide causes and triggers. Written by seventy-five world-leading researchers and practitioners, this book provides a state-of-the-art summary of landslide science. It features both field geology and engineering approaches, as well as modeling of slope failure and run-out using a variety of numerical codes. It is illustrated with international case studies integrating geological, geotechnical and remote sensing studies, and includes recent slope investigations in North America, Europe and Asia. This is an essential reference for researchers and graduate students in geomorphology, engineering geology, geotechnical engineering and geophysics, as well as professionals in natural hazard analysis.

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'A good list of references ends each chapter. The volume contains ample photos and illustrations ... Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners.' C. W. Dimmick, Choice

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List of contributors
Preface
Landslide hazard and risk
Landslides in the Earth system
Earthquake ground motion and patterns of seismically induced landsliding
Landslides at stratovolcanoes initiated by volcanic unrest
Mobility of long-runout rock avalanches
Rapid rock slope failures
Risk assessment for debris flows
Landslides in quick clay
Controls on the distribution of major types of submarine landslides
Tsunami hazard assessment related to slope failures in coastal waters
Physical impacts of climate change on landslide occurrence and related adaptation
Landslides and geological environments
Numerical modeling of rock slope instability
Remote sensing techniques and landslides
Engineering geomorphology of landslides
Developments in landslide runout prediction
Models of the triggering of landslides during earthquakes
Slow rock slope deformation
Landslide monitoring: the role of investigative monitoring to improve understanding and early warning of failure
Groundwater in slopes
Soil slope stabilization
Rock fall characterization and modeling
The 2006 Eiger rockslide, European Alps
Randa: kinematics and driving mechanisms of a large complex rockslide
Characterization and management of rockslide hazard at Turtle Mountain, Alberta, Canada
The åknes rockslide, Norway Lars
A seismometric approach for back-analysing an unusual rockfall in the Appenines of Italy
Downie Slide, British Columbia, Canada
The 1963 Vaiont landslide, Italy
Hong Kong landslides
Landslides induced by the Wenchuan earthquake
Landslides on other planets
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