Landslide Hazard

Landslide & Slope Instability Resources

PowerPoint Resources

Landslide Introduction

Landslides: Investigation and Mitigation

Keith A. Turner & Robert L. Schuster

National Academy Press

Hillslope Materials and Processes

Selby M. J.

OUP

Rock Slope Engineering: Civil and Mining

Duncan C. Wyllie & Christopher W. Mah

Spon

Landslide Recognition: Identification, Movement & Causes Dikau et al

Wiley.

Land Surface Evaluation for Engineering Purposes

Griffiths J. (Ed)

Geological Society of London

Landslide contexts

Landslide definitions

Landslide activity states

Landslide causes and triggers

Landslide & Slope Monitoring

Landslide & Slope Stabilisation

Landslide & Slope Stabilisation Further Examples

Landslide and slope bioengineering

Deep seated gravitational slides

Debris Flows: Classification & Mechanisms

Debris Flows: Management & Mitigation

Landslide & Slope Stabilisation

Key Papers and Reports

Contexts & Definitions

IAEG Commission on Landslides (1990) Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geologists, 41

Scottish Road Network Landslide Study (2005) Editors: M G Winter, F Macgregor and L Shackman

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0276 (2001) Socio-economic impacts of landslides in the Western Hemishere

Cooper, R.G. (2007) Mass Movements in Great Britain, Geological Conservation Review Series, No. 33, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, 348 pp.

Brunsden, D (1993) Mass movement: The research frontier and beyond: a geomorphological approach. Geomorphology, 7, pp 85-128

Hutchinson, J.N. (1988) Morphological and geotechnical parameters of landslides in relation to geology and hydrology. General report in Landslides. Proc 5th Int. Symp. On Landslides. Ed. C. Bonnard. Vol 1, pp 3-35

Causes and Triggers

Johnson, K.A. & Sitar, N. (1990) Hydrologic conditions leading to debris flow initiation. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 27, pp 789 – 801

Keefer, D.K. (1984) Landslides caused by earthquakes. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 95, pp 406 – 421

Van Asch, T.W.J. et al (1996) Hydrological triggering conditions of landslides in varved clays in the French Alps. Engineering Geology, 42, pp 239 – 251

Flageollet, J-C (1999) Landslides and climatic conditions in the Barcelonnette & Vars basins Southern French Alps, France. Geomorphology, 30, pp 65 – 78

Schmidt, J & Dikau, R (2004) Modeling historical climate variability and slope stability, Geomorphology, In Press

Mihail E. Popescu. Landslide & Causal Factors & Landslide Remediation options. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

Geertsema, M. & Torrance, J.K. (2005) Quick clay from the Mink Creel ;Landslide near Terrace, BC: Geotechnical properties, mineralogy & geochemistry. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 42, 907-918.

Deep Seated Gravitations Slides

B.Agliardi et al (2001) Structural constraints on deep-seated deformation kinematics. Engineering Geology, 59, pp 83-102

B.Tibaldi et al (2004) A giant deep-seated slope deformation in the Italian Alps studied by palaeoseismological & morphometric techniques. Geomorphology, 58, pp 27-47

B.Vengeon et al (1999) Contribution à l’analyse de la déformation et de la rupture des grands versants rocheux en terrain cristallophyllien. Can. Geotech. J., 36, pp 1123-1136

B. Crosta & Agliardi (2003) Failure forecast for large rock slides by surface displacement measurements. Can. Geotech. J., 40, pp 176-191

B. Rizzo & Leggeri (2004) Slope instability and sagging reactivation at Maratea (Potenza, Basilicata, Italy). Engineering Geology, 71, pp 181–198

B.Petley & Allison (1997) The mechanics of deep-seated landslides. ESPL, 22, pp 747-758

Debris Flows

Iverson, R.M. (1997) The physics of debris flows. Reviews of Geophysics. 35 (3), pp 245-296.

Pierson, T.C. & Costa, J.E. 1987 A rheological classification of sub aerial sediment – water flows. In Debris Flow / Avalanche Processes, Recognition & Mitigation. Reviews in Engineering Geology, VII, Geological Society of America

I M Nettleton, S Martin, S Hencher and R Moore (2005) Debris flow types and mechanisms. Scottish Road Network Landslide Study. Editors: M G Winter, F Macgregor and L Shackman

P. Coussot & M. Meunier (1996) Recognition, classification and mechanical description of debris flows Earth-Science Reviews Volume 40, Issues 3-4, Pages 209-227 |

Slope Stabilisation

Davies, JP; Loveridge, FA; Perry, J; Patterson, D and Carder, D (2003). Stabilisation of a Landslide on the M25 Highway London's Main Artery. 12th Pan-American Conference on soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering.

Husani O & Ratnasamy M (2001) An early warning system for active landslides. QJEGH, 34, pp 299-305.

C. Squarzoni, C. Delacourt and P. Allemand (2003) Nine years of spatial and temporal evolution of the La Valette landslide observed by SAR interferometry, Engineering Geology, pp 53-66

J-P. Malet, O. Maquaire and E. Calais (2002) The use of Global Positioning System techniques for the continuous monitoring of landslides: application to the Super-Sauze earthflow (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France), Geomorphology, pp 33-54

B. Casson, C. Delacourt, D. Baratoux and P. Allemand (2003) Seventeen years of the "La Clapière" landslide evolution analysed from ortho-rectified aerial photographs, Engineering Geology, pp 123-139

Case Studies

Donnelly L.J.; Northmore K.J.; Siddle H.J. (2002) Block movements in the Pennines and South Wales and their association with landslides. QJEGH, vol. 35,1, pp. 33-39

Dai et al (2004) A large landslide in Zigui County, Three Gorges Area. Can. Geotech. J. 41, 1233-1240.

Landslide Hazard and Risk Assessment

D. T. Nicholson (2004) Hazard assessment for progressive, weathering-related breakdown of excavated rockslopes, QJEGH, 37, pp 327 - 346

Post Glacial Landslides in the French Alps

Harmalière	Avigonent	Salle en Beaumont
Falaise de Pregentil	Torrent de Saint Antoine	Combe Noir
Séchilienne	Charmonetier	Echarennes
La Clapiere	La Vallette	Super Sauze
Claps de Lucs