Landslide stability: Role of rainfall-induced, laterally propagating, pore-pressure waves

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 315-335

  Priest, George R ^a   Schulz, William H ^b   Ellis, William L ^b   Allan, Jonathan A ^a   Niem, Alan R ^c   Niem, Wendy A ^c  

^a Mineral Industries   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Pacific Geology Northwest LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrogeology; Johnson Creek; Oregon; Pore Pressure; Rainfall; Translational Landslide

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL DISPLACEMENTS; EFFECTIVE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES; JOHNSON CREEK; LANDSLIDE MOVEMENTS; LANDSLIDE STABILITY; LATERAL PULSE; METEORIC WATERS; MIOCENE; OREGON; PORE-WATER PRESSURES; PRESSURE LEVEL; RAINFALL EVENT; SAND PACK; SATURATED ZONE; SHEAR ZONE; SILTSTONES; UNSATURATED ZONE; VERTICAL PRESSURE; WATER PRESSURES;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDSLIDES; PORE PRESSURE; SEEPAGE;

RAIN;

CREEP; GRABEN; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; LANDSLIDE; MIOCENE; PIEZOMETER; PORE PRESSURE; QUATERNARY; RAINFALL; SANDSTONE; SATURATED MEDIUM; SHEAR ZONE; SILTSTONE; SLIDING; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TERRACE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

JOHNSON CREEK; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856457980     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.17.4.315     Document Type: Article

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