Water Stewardship Information Sources
| Resource Name | Travels in the Canadian Cordillera |
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| Unique File Number | 351 |
| Information Type | applied Research |
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| Management for Natural & Industrial Hazards | A |
| Strengths | travel angles in long runout landslides |
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| Information Subtype | landslides |
| Organization | FLNRO |
| Resource Name | Geertsema M, Cruden DM. 2014. Travels in the Canadian Cordillera. 4th Canadian Conference on Geohazards |
| Resource Purpose | The travel angles of landslides are important parameter in risk analyses. Here we examine the first use of the concept in Canada, applied to the Frank slide. We also report on travel angles of an additional 61 long runout landslides in the Canadian Cordillera, mostly in northern BC. The lowest travel angles we report belong to the following groups (in ascending order) sensitive glaciomarine sediments, earth flows generated by rock slides, diamicts derived from clay shales, advance phase glaciolacustrine sediments, rock avalanches on glaciers, rock slide – debris flows, rock slide debris avalanches, and rock avalanches in general. |
| Type of Information | article |
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| Program Status | ongoing |
| NE Coverage | ne BC specific |
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| Public Safety | y |
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| Link | http://www.geohazards.ggl.ulaval.ca/alea/geertsema.pdf |
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| Contact Email | [email protected] |