Geosciences
Introduction The landslide is located within the County of Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, as shown in Fig. 1. The landslide occurred on an approximately 18.3-m … Read More
Introduction Varco d’Izzo landslide system develops in an urbanized area at the eastern suburbs of Potenza, the capital of Basilicata Region. It is located in a slope facing the valley … Read More
Introduction Landslide-debris flow is a sudden geological hazard in mountain areas, which is characterized with large scale, fast speed and wide impact range, and often causes disastrous accidents (Zhou et … Read More
Introduction The Meretschibach catchment (Fig. 1), situated in the Swiss Alps, canton Valais, near the village of Agarn (620 m.a.s.l.), has been investigated due to dynamic processes of erosion, deposition … Read More
Introduction In landslide prone areas, risk mitigation must often face problems related to economical resources, environmental impact and logistic issues. This is particularly true for structural counter-measures, which aim at … Read More
Introduction Landslides are abundant and frequent phenomena in many regions of the World, where they threaten private and public properties and human life, with significant socio-economic losses (Brabb and Harrod, … Read More
Introduction Human activity has been recognized as an important triggering factor that leads to many landslides (Turner and Schuster, 1996, Huang and Chan, 2004, Erginal et al., 2008, Ayalew et … Read More
By Philip S. Prince, sand model landslide If you Google the word “landslide”…the first search result you get is the Fleetwood Mac song. I suppose this says something about the … Read More
Earthflow Earthflows can occur on gentle to moderate slopes, generally in fine-grained soil, commonly clay or silt, but also in very weathered, clay-bearing bedrock. The mass in an earthflow moves … Read More
Flows A flow is a spatially continuous movement in which the surfaces of shear are short-lived, closely spaced, and usually not preserved. The component velocities in the displacing mass of … Read More
