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Title: | Landslide distributions around glaciers in high mountains | ||||||
Author: | Allan, Mark |
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0000 0004 7959 7662
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Awarding Body: | Northumbria University | ||||||
Current Institution: | Northumbria University | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2018 | ||||||
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Landslides, hereafter referred to as slope failures, are key geomorphic processes in mountain basins. The slope failure response to de-glaciation represents an important but poorly understood feedback to climate change. This PhD study uses a high-resolution state-of-the-art photogrammetric approach to detect and quantify failures across slopes above and around five glaciers in the Mont Blanc massif; Glacier d'Argentière, Mer de Glace, Glacier de Bossons, Ghiacciaio del Miage and Pre de Bard, over a monitoring period of one year. The statistical distributions are examined by means of a probabilistic magnitude-frequency analysis, and spatial distributions are analysed using GIS. The 3D data are also used to examine the structural properties and stability of a recently de-glaciated rock-slope by means of an innovative approach to assigning a rock mass strength classification. The analysis yielded an extensive inventory of 900 failures ranging over several orders of magnitude in volume, of which 43 are primary (i.e. rock-slope failure) and 857 are secondary (i.e. sediment remobilisation). The majority of failure activity within the observation period have happened along the steep-sided sediment-mantled lateral moraines at both glaciated and de-glaciated sites, representing a significant volume of sediment input into the glacial/ fluvial system of 3.7×105.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.772278 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences | ||||||
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