A large rockslide - Debris avalanche in cohesive soil at Pink Mountain, northeastern British Columbia, Canada

Engineering Geology

Volumn 83, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 64-75

  Geertsema, Marten ^a   Hungr, Oldrich ^b   Schwab, James W ^a   Evans, Stephen G ^c  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Debris avalanche; Landslide; Rockslide; Runout analysis

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SHALE; SOIL LIQUEFACTION; SOILS;

DEBRIS AVALANCHE; ROCKSLIDE; RUNOUT ANALYSIS;

LANDSLIDES;

DEBRIS FLOW; ROCKFALL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 32644477020     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2005.06.025     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. J.M. Bednarski Preliminary report on mapping surficial geology of Trutch map area, northeastern British Columbia Current Research 1999-A, Geological Survey of Canada 1999 35-43
2. J.M. Bednarski Drift Composition and Surficial Geology of the Trutch Map Area (94G), Northeastern British Columbia. Open File D3815, CD 2001
3. P.T. Bobrowsky N.W. Rutter The quaternary geologic history of the Canadian Rocky Mountains Geographie Physique et Quaternaire 46 1992 5-50
4. M.J. Bovis Uphill-facing (antislope) scarps in the Coast Mountains, southwest British Columbia Geological Society of America Bulletin 93 1982 804-812
5. M.J. Bovis Rock-slope deformation at Affliction Creek, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 27 1990 243-254
6. N. Boultbee D. Stead J.W. Schwab M. Geertsema The Zymoetz River rock avalanche, June 2002, British Columbia, Canada Engineering Geology 83 2006 76-93
7. N. Catto D.G.E. Liverman P.T Bobrowsky N. Rutter Laurentide, Cordilleran, and Montane glaciation in the western Peace River - Grand Prairie region, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada Quaternary International 32 1996 21-32
8. D.M. Cruden The shapes of cold, high mountains in sedimentary rocks Geomorphology 55 2003 249-261
9. A.S. Dyke J.T. Andrew P.U. Clark J.H. England G.H. Miller J. Shaw J.J. Veillette The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum Quaternary Science Reviews 21 2002 9-31
10. S.G. Evans R. Couture K. Turner T. Fuller The 2002 rock avalanche at McAuley Creek, near Vernon, British Columbia; implications for regional landslide hazard assessment 3rd Canadian Conference on Geotechnique and Natural Hazards Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. June 9 and 10, 2003 2003 260
11. M. Geertsema J.J. Clague J.W. Schwab S.G. Evans An overview of recent large landslides in northern British Columbia, Canada Engineering Geology 83 2006 120-143
12. S.S. Holland Landforms of British Columbia. A Physiographic Outline. British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources. Bulletin No. 48 Victoria, B.C. 1976 138 pp.
13. Hinds, S.J., Cecile, M.P., 2003. Geology, Pink Mountain and Northwest Cypress Creek map areas (94G/2 and NW 94B/15), British Columbia, Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1464, scale 1:50 000.
14. O. Hungr Mobility of rock avalanches Reports of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan 46 1990 11-20
15. O. Hungr A model for the runout analysis of rapid flow slides, debris flows and avalanches Canadian Geotechnical Journal 32 1995 610-623
16. O. Hungr S.G. Evans Entrainment of debris in rock avalanches; an analysis of a long run-out mechanism Bulletin, Geological Society of America 116 2004 1240-1252
17. D.K. Keefer Landslides caused by earthquakes Geological Society of America Bulletin 95 1984 406-421
18. W.H. Mathews Retreat of the last ice sheets in northeastern British Columbia and adjacent Alberta Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 331 1980 21 pp.
19. D.V. Meidinger J.J. Pojar Ecosystems of British Columbia BC Ministry of Forests, Special Report Series vol. 6 1991 330 pp.
20. Schwab et al., 2003 J.W. Schwab M. Geertsema S.G. Evans Catastrophic rock avalanches, west-central B.C., Canada 3rd Canadian Conference on Geotechnique and Natural Hazards, Edmonton, AB 2003 252-259