Landslides from Massive Rock Slope Failure (Hardcover)

Dedication. Acknowledgements. Preface. PART 1: INTRODUCTION. 1.. Massive Rock Slope Failure Phenomena; S. G. Evans et al.- 2. Single Event Landslides Resulting from Massive Rock Slope Failure: Characterising their Frequency and Impact on Society; S.G. Evans.- PART 2: ANALYSIS OF INITIAL ROCK SLOPE FAILURE. 3. On the Initiation of Large Rockslides: Perspectives from a New Analysis of the Vaiont Movement Record; D.N. Petley, D.J Petley.- 4. From Cause to Effect - Using Numerical Modelling to Understand Rock Slope Instability Mechanisms; E. Eberhardt.- 5. Gravitational Creep of Rock Slopes as Pre-collapse Deformation and some Problems in its Modelling; A.A. Varga.- 6. Models Available to Understand Failure and Pre-failure Behaviour of Large Rock Slope Movements: The Case ofLa Clapiere, Southern Alps, France; V. Merrien-Soukatchoff, Y. Gunzberger.- 7. Numerical Modelling ofRock Slopes Using a Total Slope Failure Approach; D. Stead, J. Coggan.- 8. The Role of Topographic Amplification on the Initiation of Rock Slope Failures During Earthquakes; W. Murphy.- PART 3: MONITORING OF ROCK SLOPE MOVEMENT. 9. Application of Ground Based Radar Interferometry to Monitor an Active Rockslide and Implications for Emergency Management; N. Casagli et al.- 10. Monitoring and Assessing State of Activity of Slope Instabilities by the Permanent Scatterers Technique; C. Colesanti et al.- PART 4: ANALYSIS OF POST-FAILURE BEHAVIOUR. 11. Forecasting Runout of Rock and Debris Avalanches; R.M. Iverson.- 12. Contjnuum Numerical Modelling of Flow-like Landslides; G.B. Crosta et al.- 13 . Landslide Mobility and the Role of Water; F. Legros.- 14. Rock Avalanche Occurrence, Process, and Modelling; O. Hunger.- 15. Mobility of Rock Avalanches Triggered by Underground Nuclear Explosions; V. V. Adushkin.- 16. Rapid Rock Mass Flow with Dynamic Fragmentation: Inferences from the Morphology and Internal Structure of Rockslides and Rock Avalanches; M.J. McSaveney, T.R.H. Davies.- 17. Morphology andInternal Structure of Rockslide and Rock Avalanches: Grounds and Constraints for their Modelling; A.L. Strom.- PART 5: CASE STUDIES OF MASSIVE ROCK SLOPE FAILURE. 18. The Flims Rockslide: History of lnterpretation and New Data; A. von Poschinger et al.- 19. Rock Avalanche and Mountain Slope Deformation in a Convex Dip-Slope: The Case of the Maiella Massif, Central Italy; G. Scarascia Mugnozza et al.- 20. Slow-Moving Disintegrating Rockslides on Mountain Slopes; R. Couture, S. G. Evans.- 21. Edoardo Semenza: The Importance of Geological and Geomorphological Factors for the Identification of the Ancient Vaiont Rockslide; M. Ghirott.-i 22. Failure Mechanisms and Runout Behaviour of Three Rock Avalanches in North Eastern Italian Alps; R. Genevois et al.- PART 6: VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES. 23. Large Modern Collapses on the Active Volcanoes of Kamchatka: Causes and Mechanisms of Formation; I. V. Melekestsev.- 24. Assessing Massive Flank Collapse at Stratovolcanoes Using 3-D Slope Stability Analysis; M.E. Reid, D.L. Brien.- 25. Catastrophic Volcanic Landslides: The La Orotava Events on Tenerife, Canary Islands; M. Hurlimann, A. Ledesma.- PART 7: REGIONAL STUDIES OF MASSIVE ROCK SLOPE FAILURE. 26. Rock Slope Failures in Norwegian Fjord Areas: Examples, Spatial Distribution and Temporal Pattern; L.H. Blikra et al.- 27. Rock Avalanching in the NW Argentine Andes as a result of Complex Interactions of Lithologic, Structural and Topographic Boundary Conditions, Climate Change and Active Tectonics. R. L. Hermanns et al.- 28. Rock Avalanches with Complex Run Out and Emplacement, Karakoram Himalaya, Inner Asia; K. Hewitt.- 29. Dissected Rockslide and Rock-Avalanche Deposits, Tien Shan, Kyrgizstan; K. Abdrakhmatov, A.L. Strom PART 8: INFLUENCES ON GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION. 30. Landslide-driven Erosion and Topographic Evolution of Active Mountain Belts; N. Hovius, C.P. Stark.-31. Landslide-driven Erosion Impacts of Landslide Dams on Mountain Valley Morphology R.L. Schuster.- PART 9