Landslide Recognition: Identification, Movement and Causes

by Maïa-Laura Ibsen, Richard Dikau (Editor), Denys Brunsden (Editor), Lothar Schrott (Editor)

Overview

Every year a landslide disaster occurs somewhere in Europe. Destructive events are fortunately infrequent but when they do occur they are often tragic in their effects. Europe is heavily populated and development is expanding into areas where natural events are more likely to happen. Landslide Recognition is written by specialists from several European institutions and is designed to portray the diagnostic features of landslides as they would appear in the field, on maps or in photographs. Brief descriptions are provided and some guidance is given in the area in which different landslide types might be expected. This book will assist planners, developers, engineers and earth scientists to recognise where a problem may exist and to diagnose what type of failure may occur. The correct investigations and remedial measures may then be applied.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471964773
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/06/1996
Series:	International Association of Geomorphologists , #1
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	7.19(w) x 9.78(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Richard Dikau and Denys Brunsden are the authors of Landslide Recognition: Identification, Movement and Causes , published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Fall (J. Flageollet and D. Weber).

Topple (R. Dikau, et al.).

Slide (Rational) (J. Buma and T. van Asch).

Slide (Transitional) (M. Ibsen, et al.).

Lateral Spreading (A. Pasuto, et al.).

Flow (C. Bisci, et al.).

Complex (M. Angeli, et al.).

Appendices.

Glossary.

Indexes.

Editorial Reviews

A landslide is pretty easy to recognize if you are under it, but what's harder is to identify where previous, perhaps ancient, landslides have happened and situations in which they might happen. In a report for the European Commission Environment Programme, specialists provide planners, developers, and earth scientists with guidelines for recognizing diagnostic features of the various kinds of slides as they would appear in the field, on maps, or in photographs. Their immediate concern is with areas in Europe where development might be spreading into dangerous terrain, but the principles are applicable anywhere. Includes a multilingual glossary. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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