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 …

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 …

Scaling and design of landslide and debris-flow experiments

RM Iverson - Geomorphology, 2015 - Elsevier
Scaling plays a crucial role in designing experiments aimed at understanding the behavior
of landslides, debris flows, and other geomorphic phenomena involving grain-fluid mixtures …

Back calculation of the 2017 Piz Cengalo–Bondo landslide cascade with r. avaflow: what we can do and what we can learn

M Mergili, M Jaboyedoff, J Pullarello… - Natural Hazards and …, 2020 - nhess.copernicus.org
In the morning of 23 August 2017, around 3× 10 6 m 3 of granitoid rock broke off from the
eastern face of Piz Cengalo, southeastern Switzerland. The initial rockslide–rockfall …

[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 …

Effects of debris flow composition on runout, depositional mechanisms, and deposit morphology in laboratory experiments

T De Haas, L Braat, JRFW Leuven… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting debris flow runout is of major importance for hazard mitigation. Apart from
topography and volume, runout distance and area depends on debris flow composition and …

Lahars and debris flows: Characteristics and impacts

JC Thouret, S Antoine, C Magill, C Ollier - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
This review describes the mechanisms of lahars and debris flows, and their impacts on
buildings, infrastructure and other valuables. Lahars are a type of debris flow restricted to …

GLOF hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and risk assessment of potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Bhutan Himalaya

S Rinzin, G Zhang, A Sattar, S Wangchuk, SK Allen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Deglaciation due to atmospheric warming has led to the formation and expansion of
numerous glacial lakes, especially in the eastern Himalaya. Many of these glacial lakes are …

Granular and particle-laden flows: from laboratory experiments to field observations

R Delannay, A Valance, A Mangeney… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review article provides an overview of dry granular flows and particle fluid mixtures,
including experimental and numerical modeling at the laboratory scale, large scale …

A review of applications of fractional calculus in Earth system dynamics

Y Zhang, HG Sun, HH Stowell, M Zayernouri… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fractional calculus has been used to model various hydrologic processes for 15 years. Yet,
there are still major gaps between real-world hydrologic dynamics and fractional-order …