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- First detailed treatment of both natural and artificial rockslide dams Unique classification of rockslide dams by use of remote sensing Up to the minute documentation of latest rockslide in China
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 133)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
In the last one hundred years, a number of catastrophic events associated with rockslide dam formation and failure have occurred in the mountain regions of the world. This book presents a global view of the formation, characteristics and behaviour of natural and artificial rockslide dams. Chapters include a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of our global understanding natural and artificial rockslide dams, overviews of approaches to rockslide dam risk mitigation, regional studies of rockslide dams in India, Nepal, China, Pakistan, New Zealand, and Argentina. Rockslide dams associated with large-scale instability of volcanoes are also examined. Detailed case histories of well-known historic and prehistoric rockslide dams provide examples of investigations of rockslide dam behaviour, stability, and characteristics. The formation and behaviour of rockslide-dammed lakes ("Quake Lakes") formed during the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, China are also comprehensively summarised. The formation, sedimentology and stability of rockslide dams is examined in several analytical papers. An analysis of break-out floods from volcanogenic lakes and hydrological methods of estimating break-out flood magnitude and behavior are reviewed. The use of remote sensing data in rockslide-dammed lake characterisation is explored and a new approach to the classification of rockslide dams is introduced. Finally, a unique section of the book summarises Russian and Kyrgyz experience with blast-fill dam construction in two papers by leading authorities on the technology. The volume contains 24 papers by 50 authors from 16 countries including most of the recognised world authorities on the subject.
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Earth & Environmental Sciences, Landslide Research Program, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Stephen G. Evans
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Dept. Geophysics, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway
Reginald L. Hermanns
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Institute of the Geospheres Dynamics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
Alexander Strom
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Dipto. Scienze della Terra, Università Roma, La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Gabriele Scarascia-Mugnozza
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Natural and Artificial Rockslide Dams
Editors: Stephen G. Evans, Reginald L. Hermanns, Alexander Strom, Gabriele Scarascia-Mugnozza
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04764-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-04763-3Published: 28 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26975-2Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-04764-0Published: 26 August 2011
Series ISSN: 0930-0317
Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 644
Topics: Structural Geology, Physical Geography, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis