Landslides in the thick loess terrain of Northwest China
By: edited by Edward Derbyshire, Xingmin Meng, and Tom A. Dijkstra.
Contributors: Derbyshire, Edward D.; Meng, Xingmin.; Dijkstra, Tom.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chichester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Landslides -- China, Northwest.; Loess -- China, Northwest.; Loess -- China, Northwest.; Landslides -- China, Northwest.
Description: "This volume is a study of landslides and debris flows on the Loess Plateau in north-central China which lies in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. Loess Plateau is a region with a dense rural population and a number of cities housing more than a million people. Landslides are triggered by heavy rainstorms and earthquakes have been a recurrent hazard in the loess for over two millennia." "The contributors to this book set out with a number of goals including establishing the role of bedrock relief in landsliding, studying the natural hydrological system within the loess slopes, characterising the failure of the loess fabric, producing a dynamically-based classification of loess landslides and 'ultimately' establishing criteria for a simple system for loess slope failure, together with an advisory scheme for population response to landslide warnings."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.