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Table of Contents - Reviews in Engineering Geology (REG015)

Catastrophic Landslides: Effects, Occurrence, and Mechanisms

Edited by Stephen G. Evans and Jerome V. DeGraff

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