Quick clay from the Mink Creek landslide near Terrace, British Columbia: Geotechnical properties, mineralogy, and geochemistry

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 907-918

  Geertsema, Marten ^a   Torrance, J Kenneth ^b  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Flowslide; Glaciomarine sediment; Quick clay; Rheology

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; LANDSLIDES; MINERALOGY; RHEOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

FLOWSLIDE; GLACIOMARINE SEDIMENT; QUICK CLAY;

CLAY;

CLAY; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; LANDSLIDE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; MINE CREEK; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 27144441417     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t05-028     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Clague, J.J. 1984. Quaternary geology and geomorphology, Smithers - Terrace - Prince Rupert area, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Memoir 413. 71 pp.
2. Cruden, D.M., and Varnes, D.J. 1996. Landslide types and processes. In Landslides investigation and mitigation, Special Report 247. Edited by A.K. Turner and R.L. Schuster. Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington D.C., pp. 36-75.
3. Duffel, S. and Souther J.G. 1964. Geology of the Terrace map-area, British Columbia (103 I E 1/2). Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Memoir 329. 117 p.
4. Eden, W.J., Fletcher, E.B. and Mitchell, R.J. 1971. South Nation River landslide, 16 May 1971. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 8: 446-451.
5. Evans, S.G. 1982. Landslides and surficial deposits in urban areas of British Columbia: A review. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 19: 269-288.
6. Geertsema, M. and Schwab, J.W. 1996. A photographic overview and record of the Mink Creek earthflow, Terrace, British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Forests Research Program., Victoria, B.C., Research Report 08, 21 pp.
7. Geertsema, M. and Schwab, J.W. 1997. Retrogressive flowslides in the Terrace-Kitimat area, British Columbia: from early post-deglaciation to present and implications for future slides. In Proceedings of the 11th Vancouver Geotechnical Society Symposium, May 1997, Vancouver, B.C., Edited by S. Cullum-Kenyon. Forestry Geotechnique and Resource Engineering. Bitech Publishers, Vancouver, B.C. pp. 115-133.
8. Geertsema, M., Cruden, D.M., and Schwab, J.W. 2003. Style and sequence of movement of a landslide in sensitive glaciomarine clays at Mink Creek, northwestern British Columbia. In Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Conference on Geotechnique and Natural Hazards, Edmonton, Alta., 8-10 June 2003, pp. 178-185.
9. Leroueil, S., Tavenas, F., and Le Bihan, J.-P. 1983. Proprietes caracteristiques des argiles de l'est du Canada. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 20: 681-705.
10. Mitchell, R.J. and Markell, A.R. 1974. Flowsliding in sensitive soils. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 11: 11-31.
11. Moum, J., Løken, T., and Torrance, J.K. 1971. A geochemical investigation of the sensitivity of a normally consolidated clay from Drammen, Norway. Géotechnique, 21: 329-340.
12. Norsk Geoteknisk Forening. 1974. Retningslinjer for presentasjon av geotekniske undersökelser. Oslo, 16 pp. [In Norwegian.]
13. Schwab, J.W., Geertsema, M., and Blais-Stevens, A. 2004. The Khyex River landslide of November 28, 2003, Prince Rupert British Columbia, Canada. Landslides, 1: 243-246.
14. Torrance, J.K. 1975. On the role of chemistry in the development and behaviour of the sensitive marine clays of Canada and Scandinavia. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 12: 326-335.
15. Torrance, J.K. 1983. Towards a general model of quick clay development. Sedimentology, 30: 547-555.
16. Torrance, J.K. 1990. Oxide minerals in the sensitive post-glacial marine clays. Applied Clay Science, 5: 307-323.
17. Torrance, J.K. 1999. Physical, chemical and mineralogical influences on the rheology of remoulded low-activity sensitive marine clay. Applied Clay Science, 14: 199-223.
18. Torrance, J.K. and Ohtsubo, M. 1995. Ariake Bay quick clays: a comparison with the general model. Soils and Foundations, 35: 11-19.
19. USBR. 1963. Earth manual, 1st ed. (revised). United States Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, D.C. 783 pp.