Landslides: Causes, Types and Effects

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Landslides: Causes, Types and Effects

Author: Ernest D. Werner (editor) and Hugh P. Friedman (editor) | Size: 19.3 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: Nova Science | Year: 2010 | pages: 417 | ISBN: 1607412586

A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows, which can occur in offshore, coastal and onshore environments. Although the action of gravity is the primary driving force for a landslide to occur, there are other contributing factors affecting the original slope stability. Typically, pre-conditional factors build up specific sub-surface conditions that make the area/slope prone to failure, whereas the actual landslide often requires a trigger before being released. This book discusses such triggers, as well as their outcomes.
Research studies of landslides that have occurred in various geographical settings are also among the topics examined in this book, as well as an analysis of the factors that caused them.

Contents

1. Mass Movements in Adriatic Central Italy: Activation and Evolutive Control Factors.

2. Causes and Effects of Landslides in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area, NE Mexico.

3. Mitigation of Large Landslides and Debris Flows in Slovenia.

4. Geomatic Methods for Punctual and Areal Control of Surface Changes Due to Landslide Phenomena.

5. Using Largest Seismically Induced Landslides for Estimating Earthquake Magnitudes and Topography Changes.

6. Recognition of Likely Large-Scale Landslip Failure Surfaces through Geotechnical Core Logging Methods.

7. Multi-scale Analysis for Estimating Strong Ground Motion and Structure Responses.

8. Prediction of the Seismic Displacement of Landslides Using a Multi-block Model.

9. Faults Activity, Landslides and Fluvial Catchments Triggered by the 28 December 1908 Messina Strait Earthquake (Italy).

10. Special Problems in Landslide Modelling: Mathematical and Computational Methods.

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