Catastrophic landslides : effects, occurrence, and mechanisms / edited by Stephen G. Evans and Jerome V. DeGraff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Stephen G., 1948-

DeGraff, Jerome V.

Series:

Reviews in engineering geology ; v. 15.

Reviews in engineering geology ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering geology.

Landslides.

Physical Description:

viii, 411 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Geological Society of America, 2002.

Contents:

Overview of catastrophic landslides of South America in the twentieth century / Robert L. Schuster, Daniel A. Salcedo, and Luis Valenzuela

Recent rockfalls and rock avalanches in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand / M.J. McSaveney

Val Pola rock avalanche of July 28, 1987, in Valtellina (Central Italian Alps) / Mario Govi, Giovanni Gullá, and Pier Giorgio Nicoletti

Tsao-Ling rockslides, Taiwan / Ju-Jiang Hung, Chyi-Tyi Lee, and Ming-Yang Lin

Identifying a large landslide with small displacements in a zone of coseismic tectonic deformation: The Villa del Monte landslide triggered by the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, earthquake / David K. Keefer, Edward L. Harp, and Gary B. Griggs

Rock avalanche and resulting debris flow in Estero Parraguire and Río Colorado, Región Metropolitana, Chile / A. Hauser

1983 Sale Mountain landslide, Gansu Province, China / Zhuo-Yuan Zhang, Shang-Ming Chen, and Lian-Jin Tao

Catastrophic rockfalls and rockslides in the Sierra Nevada, USA / Gerald F. Wieczorek

Rapid flow slides of coal-mine waste in British Columbia, Canada / O. Hungr ... [et al.]

Landslides resulting from structural failure of volcanoes / Lee Siebert

Large rockslides in the Alps: a commentary on the contribution of G. Abele (1937-1994) and a review of some recent developments / Andreas von Poschinger

Chalk flows from the coastal cliffs of northwest Europe / John N. Hutchinson

Villavil rockslides, Catamarca Province, Argentina / Luis Fauqué and Pablo Tchilinguirian

Landslides and landscape evolution in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent Foothills area, southwestern Alberta, Canada / Lionel E. Jackson Jr.

Styles of rock-avalanche depositional complexes conditioned by very rugged terrain, Karakoram Himalaya, Pakistan / Kenneth Hewitt

Neogene sturzstrom deposits, Split Mountain area, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California / Patrick L. Abbott ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813741157

OCLC:

49576544