Water Stewardship Information Sources
| Resource Name | Challenges with terrain stability mapping in Northern British Columbia |
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| Unique File Number | 2 |
| Information Type | Applied Research |
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| Management for Natural & Industrial Hazards | A |
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| Information Subtype | landslides |
| Organization | BC MFLNRO |
| Resource Name | Geertsema, M and Schwab, J. 2006. Challenges with terrain stability mapping in Northern British Columbia. Streamline Watershed Management Bulletin. Vol 10 Issue 1. |
| Resource Purpose | The pur pose of this paper is to introduce geological conditions common in northern BC that require special considerations in terrain stability mapping and assessments, where standard forestry-related TSM may not be sufficient or is not the appropriate tool for assessing the over all slope stability hazard. More importantly, below-ground (not visible) and off-site conditions should be considred for assess ing hazards for large and (or) com plex land slides. Slope haz ards gen er ally not con sid ered in for estry appli ca tion are dis cussed in this arti -cle. Top ics include sit u a tions where rock slides trig ger larger move ments in soil, glaciomarine sed i ments, permafrost areas, and preglacial buried valleys. |
| Type of Information | article |
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| NE Coverage | Northern BC |
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| Public Safety | Y |
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| Link | http://forrex.org/sites/default/files/publications/articles/Streamline_Vol10_No1_art4.pdf |
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| Contact Email | [email protected] |