Landslides from Massive Rock Slope Failure - Evans, Stephen G.; Scarascia Mugnozza, Gabriele; Strom, Alexander; Hermanns, Reginald L.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
LANDSLIDES FROM MASSIVE ROCK SLOPE FAILURE AND ASSOCIATED PHENOMENA -- SINGLE-EVENT LANDSLIDES RESULTING FROM MASSIVE ROCK SLOPE FAILURE: CHARACTERISING THEIR FREQUENCY AND IMPACT ON SOCIETY -- ANALYSIS OF INITIAL ROCK SLOPE FAILURE -- ON THE INITIATION OF LARGE ROCKSLIDES: PERSPECTIVES FROM A NEW ANALYSIS OF THE VAIONT MOVEMENT RECORD -- FROM CAUSE TO EFFECT: USING NUMERICAL MODELLING TO UNDERSTAND ROCK SLOPE INSTABILITY MECHANISMS -- GRAVITATIONAL CREEP OF ROCK SLOPES AS PRE-COLLAPSE DEFORMATION AND SOME PROBLEMS IN ITS MODELLING -- MODELS AVAILABLE TO UNDERSTAND FAILURE AND PRE-FAILURE BEHAVIOUR OF LARGE ROCK SLOPE MOVEMENTS: THE CASE OF LA CLAPIÈRE, SOUTHERN ALPS, FRANCE -- NUMERICAL MODELLING OF ROCK SLOPES USING A TOTAL SLOPE FAILURE APPROACH -- THE ROLE OF TOPOGRAPHIC AMPLIFICATION ON THE INITIATION OF ROCK SLOPES FAILURES DURING EARTHQUAKES -- MONITORING OF ROCK SLOPE MOVEMENT -- APPLICATION OF GROUND-BASED RADAR INTERFEROMETRY TO MONITOR AN ACTIVE ROCKSLIDE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT -- MONITORING AND ASSESSING THE STATE OF ACTIVITY OF SLOPE INSTABILITIES BY THE PERMANENT SCATTERERS TECHNIQUE -- ANALYSIS OF POST-FAILURE BEHAVIOUR -- FORECASTING RUNOUT OF ROCK AND DEBRIS AVALANCHES -- CONTINUUM NUMERICAL MODELLING OF FLOW-LIKE LANDSLIDES -- ANALYSIS OF POST-FAILURE BEHAVIOUR -- ROCK AVALANCHE OCCURRENCE, PROCESS AND MODELLING -- MOBILITY OF ROCK AVALANCHES TRIGGERED BY UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- INFERENCES FROM THE MORPHOLOGY AND INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF ROCKSLIDES AND ROCK AVALANCHES RAPID ROCK MASS FLOW WITH DYNAMIC FRAGMENTATION: -- MORPHOLOGY AND INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF ROCKSLIDES AND ROCK AVALANCHES: GROUNDS AND CONSTRAINTS FOR THEIR MODELLING -- CASE STUDIES OF MASSIVE ROCK SLOPE FAILURE -- THE FLIMS ROCKSLIDE: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION AND NEW INSIGHTS -- ROCK AVALANCHE AND MOUNTAIN SLOPE DEFORMATION IN A CONVEX DIP-SLOPE: THE CASE OF THE MAIELLA MASSIF, CENTRAL ITALY -- SLOW-MOVING DISINTEGRATING ROCKSLIDES ON MOUNTAIN SLOPES -- EDOARDO SEMENZA: THE IMPORTANCE OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE ANCIENT VAIONT LANDSLIDE -- FAILURE MECHANISMS AND RUNOUT BEHAVIOUR OF THREE ROCK AVALANCHES IN THE NORTH-EASTERN ITALIAN ALPS -- VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES -- LARGE MODERN COLLAPSES ON THE ACTIVE VOLCANOES OF KAMCHATKA: CAUSES AND MECHANISM OF FORMATION -- ASSESSING MASSIVE FLANK COLLAPSE AT STRATOVOLCANOES USING 3-D SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS -- CATASTROPHIC VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES: THE LA OROTAVA EVENTS ON TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS -- REGIONAL STUDIES OF MASSIVE ROCK SLOPE FAILURE -- ROCK SLOPE FAILURES IN NORWEGIAN FJORD AREAS: EXAMPLES, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND TEMPORAL PATTERN -- OF COMPLEX INTERACTIONS OF LITHOLOGIC, STRUCTURAL AND TOPOGRAPHIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ACTIVE TECTONICS ROCK AVALANCHING IN THE NW ARGENTINE ANDES AS A RESULT -- ROCK AVALANCHES WITH COMPLEX RUN OUT AND EMPLACEMENT, KARAKORAM HIMALAYA, INNER ASIA -- DISSECTED ROCKSLIDE AND ROCK AVALANCHE DEPOSITS; TIEN SHAN, KYRGYZSTAN -- INFLUENCES ON GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION -- LANDSLIDE-DRIVEN EROSION AND TOPOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF ACTIVE MOUNTAIN BELTS -- IMPACTS OF LANDSLIDE DAMS ON MOUNTAIN VALLEY MORPHOLOGY -- STATE-OF-THE-ART -- MASSIVE ROCK SLOPE FAILURE : PERSPECTIVES AND RETROSPECTIVES ON STATE-OF-THE-ART.
Keywords: Geotechnical engineering; Physical geography; Environment; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Physical Geography; Environment, general