Geomorphological Hazards in High Mountain Areas

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Sedimentology and Clast Orientation of Deposits Produced by Glacial-Lake Outburst Floods in the Mount Everest Region, Nepal

   • Daniel A. Cenderelli, Ellen E. Wohl

   Pages 1-26

3. Catastrophic Flood Flushing of Sediment, Western Himalaya, Pakistan

   • J F. Shroder Jr., M. P. Bishop, R. Scheppy

   Pages 27-48

4. Landslides and Deserted Places in the Semi-Arid Environment of the Inner Himalaya

   • Jussi Baade, Roland Mäusbacher, Günther A. Wagner, Erwin Heine, Robert Kostka

   Pages 49-62

5. Glacier-Induced Hazards as a Consequence of Glacigenic Mountain Landscapes, in Particular Glacier- and Moraine-Dammed Lake Outbursts and Holocene Debris Production

   • Matthias Kuhle, Sigrid Meiners, Lasafam Iturrizaga

   Pages 63-96

6. Chaos Theory of Slides/Mud Flows in Mountain Areas

   • A. E. Scheidegger

   Pages 97-105

7. The Salt Weathering Hazard in Deserts

   • Andrew Goudie

   Pages 107-120

8. Impact of Conversion of Upland Forest to Tourism and Agricultural Land Uses in the Gunung Kinabalu Highlands, Sabah, Malaysia

   • Waidi Sinun, Ian Douglas

   Pages 121-131

9. Landslides in the Rocky Mountains of Canada

   • D. M. Cruden, X. Q. Hu

   Pages 133-148

10. Late Holocene Sturzstroms in Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A.

    • David R. Butler, George P. Malanson, Forrest D. Wilkerson, Ginger L. Schmid

    Pages 149-166

11. Storm Induced Mass-Wasting in the Oregon Coast Range, U.S.A.

    • Charles L. Rosenfeld

    Pages 167-176

12. Natural Hazards in Relation to Present Stratovolcano Deglaciation: Popocatepetl and Citlaltepetl, Mexico

    • David Palacios

    Pages 177-209

13. Andean Landslide Hazards

    • T. A. Blodgett, C. Blizard, B. L. Isacks

    Pages 211-227

14. Fluvial Hazards in a Steepland Mountain Environment, Southern Bolivia

    • Jeff Warburton, Mark Macklin, David Preston

    Pages 229-243

15. Geomorphological Response of Neotectonic Activity Along the Cordillera Blanca Fault Zone, Peru

    • Vít Vilímek, Marco Zapata Luyo

    Pages 245-262

16. Geomorphological Hazards and Risks in the High Tatra Mountains

    • Jan Kalvoda

    Pages 263-284

17. Geomorphologic Hazards in a Glaciated Granitic Massif: Sierra De Gredos, Spain

    • David Palacios, Javier De Marcos

    Pages 285-307

18. Back Matter

    Pages 309-316

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On the basis of a total of thirteen case examples from the Tien Shan, Karakorum, Himalaya and Tangula Shan (central Tibet), the risk potential and hazards are inferred from the development of landscape during the Quaternary. The history of glaciers can be seen as of central importance for this. The Ice Age glacial erosion created V-shaped valleys, which with their steep flanks - as a consequence of the interglacial formation of V -valleys - have prepared and brought about landslides as well as rockslides and the hazards, combined with them. The same is true for the moraines, which the gla­ ciers have deposited high-up in the valley flanks and related loose stone deposits. Dry and wet mass movements follow after heavy precipitation, especially in the semi-arid investigation areas, and are catastrophes for the settlements and the communication routes in the valley floors. Their key-forms are debris cones and debris slopes, as well as mudflows and alluvial fans. In addition to the Ice Age glaciation history, as a preparatory, indirect factor, the Holocene to present glaciation history is, as a result of the danlming-up of glacier- and moraine lakes and their outbursts, a direct risk factor. The examples presented of acute and already occurred cases of damage were inves­ tigated in the years 1989-1994. Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Max Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG), the Volkswagen-Stiftting (VW) and the Deutscher Aka­ demischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) for the financial support for the field-work.

• erosion
• natural disaster
• production
• hydrogeology

• Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  Jan Kalvoda

• Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

  Charles L. Rosenfeld

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