The Varnes classification of landslide types, an update

O Hungr, S Leroueil, L Picarelli - Landslides, 2014 - Springer
The goal of this article is to revise several aspects of the well-known classification of
landslides, developed by Varnes (1978). The primary recommendation is to modify the …

2014 Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium: Landslide runout analysis—current practice and challenges

S McDougall - Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Flow-like landslides, such as debris flows and rock avalanches, travel at extremely rapid
velocities and can impact large areas far from their source. When hazards like these are …

r. avaflow v1, an advanced open-source computational framework for the propagation and interaction of two-phase mass flows

M Mergili, JT Fischer, J Krenn… - Geoscientific Model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
r. avaflow represents an innovative open-source computational tool for routing rapid mass
flows, avalanches, or process chains from a defined release area down an arbitrary …

[HTML][HTML] Landslide mobility and hazards: implications of the 2014 Oso disaster

RM Iverson, DL George, K Allstadt, ME Reid… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Landslides reflect landscape instability that evolves over meteorological and geological
timescales, and they also pose threats to people, property, and the environment. The …

Insights from the failure and dynamic characteristics of two sequential landslides at Baige village along the **sha River, China

C Ouyang, H An, S Zhou, Z Wang, P Su, D Wang… - Landslides, 2019 - Springer
The focus of this paper is on two large sequential landslides which formed a dam and the
resulting lake that occurred along the **sha River on October 11 and November 3, 2018 …

[HTML][HTML] Direct observations of a three million cubic meter rock-slope collapse with almost immediate initiation of ensuing debris flows

F Walter, F Amann, A Kos, R Kenner, M Phillips… - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
Catastrophic collapse of large rock slopes ranks as one of the most hazardous natural
phenomena in mountain landscapes. The cascade of events, from rock-slope failure, to rock …

Entrainment of bed material by Earth‐surface mass flows: Review and reformulation of depth‐integrated theory

RM Iverson, C Ouyang - Reviews of geophysics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Earth‐surface mass flows such as debris flows, rock avalanches, and dam‐break floods can
grow greatly in size and destructive potential by entraining bed material they encounter …

Landslide erosion controlled by hillslope material

IJ Larsen, DR Montgomery, O Korup - Nature Geoscience, 2010 - nature.com
Steep hillslopes in mountain belts are eroded by landslides, and landsliding is ultimately
driven by the topographic relief produced by fluvial and glacial erosion,,,,. Landslide erosion …

[HTML][HTML] Geostructures, dynamics and risk mitigation of high-altitude and long-runout rockslides

Y Yin, B Li, Y Gao, W Wang, S Zhang… - Journal of Rock Mechanics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Long-runout rockslides at high altitude could cause disaster chain in river basins and
destroy towns and major infrasturctures. This paper firstly explores the initiation mechanism …

[HTML][HTML] Catastrophic mass flows resulting from tailings impoundment failures

NM Rana, N Ghahramani, SG Evans, S McDougall… - Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tailings dam failures have received significant attention in recent years due to the
catastrophic downstream consequences, as evidenced by the 2019 Feijão disaster in Brazil …