| Dedication |
v |
| Acknowledgments |
v |
| Preface |
vii |
Part 1. Effects |
| 1. |
Overview of catastrophic landslides of South America in the twentieth century
Robert L. Schuster, Daniel A. Salcedo, and Luis Valenzuela |
1 |
Part 2. Occurrence |
| 2. |
Recent rockfalls and rock avalanches in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand
M.J. McSaveney |
35 |
| 3. |
Val Pola rock avalanche of July 28, 1987, in Valtellina (Central Italian Alps)
Mario Govi, Giovanni Gullà, and Pier Giorgio Nicoletti |
71 |
| 4. |
Tsao-Ling rockslides, Taiwan
Ju-Jiang Hung, Chyi-Tyi Lee, and Ming-Yang Lin |
91 |
| 5. |
Identifying a large landslide with small displacements in a zone of coseismic tectonic deformation: The Villa del Monte landslide triggered by the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, earthquake
David K. Keefer, Edward L. Harp, and Gary B. Griggs |
117 |
| 6. |
Rock avalanche and resulting debris flow in Estero Parraguire and Río Colorado, Región Metropolitana, Chile
A. Hauser |
135 |
| 7. |
1983 Sale Mountain landslide, Gansu Province, China
Zhuo-Yuan Zhang, Shang-Ming Chen, and Lian-Jin Tao |
149 |
Part 3. Mechanisms |
| 8. |
Catastrophic rockfalls and rockslides in the Sierra Nevada, USA
Gerald F. Wieczorek |
165 |
| 9. |
Rapid flow slides of coal-mine waste in British Columbia, Canada
O. Hungr, R.F. Dawson, A. Kent, D. Campbell, and N.R. Morgenstern |
191 |
| 10. |
Landslides resulting from structural failure of volcanoes
Lee Siebert |
209 |
| 11. |
Large rockslides in the Alps: A commentary on the contribution of G. Abele (1937-1994) and a review of some recent developments
Andreas von Poschinger |
237 |
| 12. |
Chalk flows from the coastal cliffs of northwest Europe
John N. Hutchinson |
257 |
| 13. |
Villavil rockslides, Catamarca Province, Argentina
Luis Fauquè and Pablo Tchilinguirian |
303 |
| 14. |
Landslides and landscape evolution in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent Foothills area, southwestern Alberta, Canada
Lionel E. Jackson Jr. |
325 |
| 15. |
Styles of rock-avalanche depositional complexes conditioned by very rugged terrain, Karakoram Himalaya, Pakistan
Kenneth Hewitt |
345 |
| 16. |
Neogene sturzstrom deposits, Split Mountain area, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
Patrick L. Abbott, Dennis R. Kerr, Steven E. Borron, Jacobe L. Washburn, and David A. Rightmer |
379 |
Index |
401 |