Loess Landslides–Peculiarities of Deformation Mechanism
Journal: Progress in landslide research and technology
Year: 2024

Abstract Loess on the Earth occupies an area of more than 13 million km 2 . The greatest spread of loess is in Europe and Asia (mainly south of 62°N), where vast areas are composed of loess from the surface, the thickness of which varies in Europe from a few meters to 20–30 m, and in the Caucasus, in intermountain hollows of Central Asia, China-from 50–60 m to 100 m and more. The peculiarity of loess is its predisposition to the development of subsidence-compaction during moistening under the ac