Assessment of periglacial slope stability for the 1988 Tschierva rock avalanche (Piz Morteratsch, Switzerland)

Engineering Geology

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 32-43

  Fischer, L ^a   Amann, Florian ^b   Moore, Jeffrey R ^b   Huggel, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Numerical modeling; Periglacial; Progressive failure; Rock slope stability; Structural geology

Indexed keywords

ALPINE TERRAIN; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; CRYOSPHERE; DATA LIMITATIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; FAULT ZONE; GLACIATION HISTORY; GLACIER RETREAT; HIGH WATER PRESSURE; JOINT DENSITIES; LOADING CYCLES; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NUMERICAL MODELING; PERIGLACIAL; PRIMARY FACTORS; PROGRESSIVE FAILURE; ROCK AVALANCHE; ROCK SLOPE FAILURE; ROCK SLOPE STABILITY; SLOPE FACES; SLOPE FAILURE; STABILITY ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND; WATER INFILTRATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GROUNDWATER; KINEMATICS; METEOROLOGY; PERMAFROST; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

SLOPE STABILITY;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOSPHERE; GEOMECHANICS; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GLACIATION; GLACIER RETREAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; ROCK AVALANCHE; ROCK MECHANICS; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TERRAIN; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

ALPS; BERNINA RANGE; EASTERN ALPS; GRAUBUNDEN; PIZ MORTERATSCH; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77957810933     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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