New Topic Today Mass Movement = Mass Wasting =colluvial processes =slope processes =slope failures =LANDSLIDES U.S. Landslide Risk Which states have lots of landslide damage? Landslides by U.S. Region California West Virginia 40% of U.S. damage 13% of U.S. damage
WV Has 1st or 2nd Highest Landslide Damage Per Capita $100-300 /person/yr About Same as UTAH Main Problems Road Failures Building Damage Construction Cost Over-Runs Strength of Slope = Cohesion + Strength of Material Strength of Material Varies with Moisture Poor Drainage: Slope Instability. Angle of Repose (Angle of Internal Friction) Stable Angle of Slope for a Material.
Angle of Repose Sandstone Sandstone = 70-90 Shale = 30 (57% Slope) Shale } 30 Sandstone Shale Angle of Repose Sandstone = 80-90 o Shale = 30 o or 57% Slope Angle of Repose Landslide Deposits = 5-25 o ~12 o Mount St. Helens debris avalanche deposits
Angle of Repose for Clay = 1 to 10 ~5 o Tully (New York) Landslide 1993 USGS Photo See: USGS Fact Sheet 013-98 at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs13-98/ Shear Strength/Shear Stress =Factor of Safety Creep
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Evidence of Creep Landslides Fall Rock Debris Soil Earth Type of Motion Topple Planar Slide Rotational Slide Flow Landslides Rock Debris Soil Earth Fall Rock Fall Debris Fall Earth Fall Type of Motion Topple Planar Slide Rock Slide Debris Slide Earth Slide Rotational Slide Flow Rock Topple Rock Slump Debris Topple Earth Topple Debris Slump Earth Slump Rock Flow Debris Flow Earth Flow Rock Debris Earth
Basic Landslide Classification Material Type of Motion Rock Debris Soil Earth Material Rock: Bedrock Soil: Unconsolidated Material Debris: >20 % Big Stuff (>2 mm) Earth: <20 % Big Stuff (>2 mm) Landslides Fall Rock Debris Soil Earth Type of Motion Topple Planar Slide Rotational Slide Flow
Landslides Rock Debris Soil Earth Fall Rock Fall Debris Fall Earth Fall Type of Motion Topple Planar Slide Rotational Slide Flow Rock Topple Debris Topple Earth Topple Rock Slide Debris Slide Earth Slide Rock Slump Debris Slump Earth Slump Rock Flow Debris Flow Earth Flow Rock Debris Earth Landslides Fall Topple Landslides - Topple
Rockslide at Yosemite National Park, CA, kills 1, injures 4 in 1999 Gerald F. Wieczorek, U.S. Geological Survey and James B. Snyder, National Park Service http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_files /landslides/yosemite99.html Photograph taken from across the canyon by rock climber Lloyd DeForrest while dangling on rope 2000 feet above the valley floor Rock Fall Yosemite NP Rockfall Video Steinschlag = Rock Fall - Gipfel Weißstein, Gries i.s., Tirol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsf5nplhqo4&feature=related
Image Not for Web Posting Landslides - Rock Fall Fall 70 ton Boulder: Mon Blvd., 10 March 1994 J.S. Kite Photo
Mon Blvd. Rock Fall, January 1983 Dominion Post Photo Talus of Sandstone Boulders Ice Mountain, WV J.S. Kite Photo Landslides Rock Debris Soil Earth Fall Rock Fall Debris Fall Earth Fall Type of Motion Topple Rock Topple Debris Topple Earth Topple Planar Slide Rock Slide Debris Slide Earth Slide Rotational Rock Slump Debris Slump Earth Slump Slide Flow Rock Flow Debris Flow Earth Flow Rock Debris Earth
Landslides Planar Slide = Slide Rotational Slide = Slump Landslides Planar Slide = Slide Rotational Slide = Slump Landslides Planar Slide = Slide Rotational Slide = Slump
Slump Typical WV Landslide. Slump scarp is at the head, and earthflow is at the toe. (Illustration by Paul Queen, WV Geol. Surv.) http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/ www/geohaz/geohaz3.htm Slump
Earth Flow, Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio. http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_files/landslides/slides/landslideimages.htm Earth Flow, US 52, Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati: highest per capita loss of any city in US. (Photo by Aaron Mitten, Ohio Department of Transportation.) http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/mud3.htm Scarp formed at the head of a landslide in Penn Hills, Allegheny County caused numerous problems for the owner of this house. http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/photogallery/landsli de.htm Penn Hills, Allegheny Co., Photo by John Harper, PaGS.
Zion National Park, Utah USGS Landslide Images http://landslides.usgs.gov/ html_files/landslides/slides/ landslideimages.htm Two WMV files of Landslides Package 2004 Landslide in Japan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjf-rhl4tve or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=manganavll8&feature=related Package Sultan River Slide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu88wb6grog Photo by Edwin L. Harp U.S. Geological Survey La Conchita Landslide showing fractures in ridge behind the scarp. http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_ files/elsalvador/figure4.html
Slump, La Conchita, California 2005 Debris Flow Killed 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4kwxgldl3o
Geomorphic Thresholds Intrinsic: e.g. collapse of cave Extrinsic: e.g. climate, humans Real world geomorphic systems not as simple as in the lab! = the frustration = the attraction of geomorphology BIG Slump, New River Gorge July 2001
Elverton Slump, New River Gorge, July 2001 Landslides Rock Debris Soil Earth Fall Rock Fall Debris Fall Earth Fall Type of Motion Topple Planar Slide Rock Slide Debris Slide Earth Slide Rotational Slide Flow Rock Topple Debris Topple Earth Topple Rock Slump Debris Slump Earth Slump Rock Flow Rock Debris Flow Earth Flow Debris Earth Las Colinas Debris Slide-Flow, Santa Tecla, El Salvador, 13 Jan 2001 Earthquake Source: Reuters, via search.news.yahoo.com/
Las Colinas, El Salvador, Debris Slide-Flow (Reuters photo) La Guaira, Venezuela: Dec 1999 La Guaira, Venezuela: Dec 1999 ~19,000 Dead
November 1985 Debris Flow Track, Twin Run, Pendleton Co., WV Superelevation of Debris Flow, Twin Run July 2001, Kanawha Valley, Glenn Ferris, WV If you pictures or video, see Dr. Kite??
Kanawha City Debris Flow: 3 Dead 1973 Stopped Here 20 Feb 2003: Mt. St. Helens Lahar, 1982 Mount Rainier, WA Seattle Lahar (= Debris Flow & Debris ) Hazard in the Seattle Area This Image: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/imgs/j pg/rainier/outreach/screen_pos ter_lahar_haz.jpg
Wet-slab avalanche, Quandary Peak, Colorado Colorado Information Center photo by Pete Wynne http://www.caic.state.co.us/photos.html s Ride Almost Frictionless on a Cushion of Compressed Air Battleship Track, February 28, 1987, Red Mountain Pass, Colorado Colorado Information Center photo by Tim Lane http://www.caic.state.co.us/ photos.html Rock Video Felssturz Einserkofel in Sexten, Freitag 12. Oktober 2007-60000 Kubikmeter Gestein brechen am Einserkofel in Sexten Hochpustertal ab http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jviiua8xyi&nr=1
Mt. Huascaran, Peru, 1970 How Fast? >300 km/h 17,000 dead Armero, Colombia, near Nevado del Ruiz Volcano, Nov. 1985 23,000 Dead Armero, Colombia, destroyed by lahar on November 13, 1985. More than 23,000 people were killed in Armero when lahars (volcanic debris flows) swept down from the erupting Nevado del Ruiz volcano. http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/colombia/ruiz/ description_eruption_lahar_1985.html
U.S. Landslide Risk Landslides Rock Debris Soil Earth Fall Rock Fall Debris Fall Earth Fall Type of Motion Topple Planar Slide Rock Slide Debris Slide Earth Slide Rotational Slide Flow Rock Topple Rock Slump Debris Topple Earth Topple Debris Slump Earth Slump Rock Flow Debris Flow Earth Flow Rock Debris Earth WV Has 1st or 2nd Highest Landslide Damage Per Capita Main Problems Are Road Failures Building Damage Construction Cost Over-Runs
Retaining Wall Landslide Remediation I-64, Afton Mountain, Virginia Blue Ridge. http://www.mme.state.va.us/dmr/docs/hazard/slide.html Regional Causes of Landslides Steep Topography Mountains Incision by Rivers Materials Red Shales - Expansive Clays Stupid or Ignorant People Oversteepening of Slopes Poor Drainage Management Lack of Geotechnical Consulting Solutions to Landslide Problems Don t Be Stupid Use What You Learn from GEOL 101 Seek Geotechnical Help From Geologists or Civil Engineers