Catastrophic landslides
Subtitle: effects, occurrence, and mechanisms
By: edited by Stephen G. Evans and Jerome V. DeGraff.
Contributors: Evans, Stephen G., 1948-; DeGraff, Jerome V.
Series: Reviews in engineering geology -- v. 15.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Engineering geology.; Landslides.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Overview of catastrophic landslides of South America in the twentieth century / Robert L. Schuster, Daniel A. Salcedo, and Luis Valenzuela; value: Recent rockfalls and rock avalanches in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand / M.J. McSaveney; value: Val Pola rock avalanche of July 28, 1987, in Valtellina (Central Italian Alps) / Mario Govi, Giovanni Gullá, and Pier Giorgio Nicoletti; value: Tsao-Ling rockslides, Taiwan / Ju-Jiang Hung, Chyi-Tyi Lee, and Ming-Yang Lin; value: 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; value: Rock avalanche and resulting debris flow in Estero Parraguire and Río Colorado, Región Metropolitana, Chile / A. Hauser; value: 1983 Sale Mountain landslide, Gansu Province, China / Zhuo-Yuan Zhang, Shang-Ming Chen, and Lian-Jin Tao; value: Catastrophic rockfalls and rockslides in the Sierra Nevada, USA / Gerald F. Wieczorek; value: Rapid flow slides of coal-mine waste in British Columbia, Canada / O. Hungr ... [et al.]; value: Landslides resulting from structural failure of volcanoes / Lee Siebert; value: 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; value: Chalk flows from the coastal cliffs of northwest Europe / John N. Hutchinson; value: Villavil rockslides, Catamarca Province, Argentina / Luis Fauqué and Pablo Tchilinguirian; value: Landslides and landscape evolution in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent Foothills area, southwestern Alberta, Canada / Lionel E. Jackson Jr.; value: Styles of rock-avalanche depositional complexes conditioned by very rugged terrain, Karakoram Himalaya, Pakistan / Kenneth Hewitt; value: Neogene sturzstrom deposits, Split Mountain area, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California / Patrick L. Abbott ... [et al.].