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Describes the causes and consequences of landslides, avalanches, and other, sometimes rapid, sometimes slow, downward movements of rocks, soil, and/or snow. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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The Proceedings of the 11th International Conference and Field Trip on Landslides deals with landslides in soil and rock as well as snow and slush avalanches. It contains analyses, experimental investigations and stability evaluation of landslides in soil. Case records with detailed surveys illustrate the topographic conditions and the movements that take place. Numerous case records from rock slides give new information about the extent of such slides and the geological conditions where such slides occur. The sliding mechanism is described and modelled and there is consideration of the climatic conditions which have a significant effect on the triggering of such slides. Several papers deal with the monitoring of snow and slush avalanches. Additional studies include models and experiments that contribute to an understanding of what happens in the field. Authors and co-authors from 18 countries contributed to this interesting collection of scientific work. The publication is an important addition to what has already been written on these topics and is a valuable reference for a better understanding of landslides and avalanches.

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In the wake of the disastrous tsunami which struck Papua New Guinea in 1998, this volume presents 20 state-of-the-art contributions on landslide tsunamis, including earthquake characteristics and ground motions, modeling of landslides in geotechnical engineering, field surveys on land and at sea, simulations of past, present, and potential future tsunamis, and theoretical studies of tsunami generation by landslides. ... Read more

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This volume is a study of landslides and debris flows on the Loess Plateau of north-central China which lies in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. The 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 terrain 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 nature of the hydrological system within the loess slopes, characterising the modes of failure of the loess fabric, producing a dynamically-based classification of loess landslides and ‘ultimately establishing criteria for a simple warning system for loess slope failure, together with an advisory scheme for local population response to landslide warnings. This volume is lavishly illustrated and includes over forty colour maps unique in their content and coverage, showing for the first time the detailed distribution of landslides in the thick loess terrain of eastern Gansu Province, North China. ... Read more

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Understanding the relationship between landslides and climate change is crucially important in planning a proactive approach to hazard and risk management.  Advances in geohazard modelling and prediction enable us to be better prepared for the impacts of climate change, but there is still a need for effective risk management and informed planning policy to improve the safety and sustainability of communities at risk.  The increasing frequency of extreme weather events has highlighted our vulnerability to the impact of climate change, and has resulted in enormous human and economic loss.  This book presents the Proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Landslides and Climate Change – Challenges and Solutions’, which was held in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK in May 2007. The volume considers the practical experiences of hazard management, risk governance and response to climate change, and will be of interest to engineers, planners, practitioners, regional and local authorities, academics and politicians.

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Landslides," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Landslides in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Landslides when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Landslides, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Based on contributions to the first General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides, this reference and status report emphasizes the mechanisms of different types of landslides, landslide risk analysis, and sustainable disaster management. It comprises the achievements of the ICL over the past three years, since the Kyoto assembly. It consists of three parts: research results of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL); contributions on landslide risk analysis; and articles on sustainable disaster management. In addition, the history of the ICL activities (under the support of UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UN/ISDR, and UNU) is recounted to create a comprehensive overview of international activity on landslides. The contributions reflect a wide range of topics and concerns, randing from field studies, identification of objects of cultural heritage at landslide risk, as well as landslide countermeasures.

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DAVE PORTER IN THE GOLD FIELDS CHAPTER I the landslide mine " Roger, that sounds like a fairy tale-a real gold mine belonging to your mother lost through a landslide I " 11 So it does sound like a fairy tale, Dave; but it is absolutely true. The mine was owned by my uncle, Maurice Harrison, of Butte, Montana, and when he died he left it to my mother, who was his sister. On the day he died there was a big landslide in the mountains, where the mine was located,-and that was the end of the mine, as far as my folks were concerned." " You mean you couldn't find the mine after the landslide? " asked Dave Porter, with deep interest. "That's it," answered Roger Morr. " The opening to it was completely covered up, and so were the stakes, and several landmarks that showed where the mine was located." " But why didn't you tell of this before,

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CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I The Landslide Mine i; II: Dave Porter's Past ii; III Caught in a Storm 21; IV A Question of Stocks ? 31; V A Trap for Job Haskers ; VL Another Surprise ? 51; VII A Gathering of Oak Hall Boys 6l; VIII Fire and Firecrackers ? 71; IX What Nat Poole Had to Tell 8l; X Dave at Home 91; XL Overheard in the Summer-House 101; XII On the Way West Ill; xiii Dave Sees Something 121; XIV In Butte 131; XV At Abe Blower's Home 141; XVI On to Black Cat Camp ? 151; XVII Along the Mountain Trail l6l; XVIII The Stolen Horses 171; XIX The Newspaper Clew l8l; XX The Exposure 191; XXL On the Back Trail 201; XXII Dave and the Mountain Lion 211; XXIII In the Mountain Cave 221; XXIV Searching for the Landslide Mine 231; XXV Caught in a Storm 241; vi; CONTENTS; CHAPTER; xxvi xxvii xxviii xxix xxx; Prowlers in Camp; The Two Prisoners; The Lost Landslide Mine ; Another Landslide; The New Claim-Conclusion

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