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  title info:
    title: Landslides in Sensitive Clays
    sub title: From Geosciences to Risk Management
  name:
    name part: L'Heureux, Jean-Sébastien.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Locat, Ariane.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Leroueil, Serge.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Demers, Denis.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Locat, Jacques.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 418 p. 185 illus., 123 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Landslides in sensitive clays represent a major hazard in the northern countries of the world such as Canada, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and in the US state of Alaska. Past and recent examples of catastrophic landslides at e.g. Saint-Jean-Vianney in 1971, Rissa in 1979, Finneidfjord in 1996 and Kattmarka in 2009 have illustrated the great mobility of the remolded sensitive clays and their hazardous retrogressive potential. These events call for a better understanding of landslide in sensitive clay terrain to assist authorities with state-of-the-art hazard assessment methods, risk management schemes, mitigation measures and planning. During the last decades the elevated awareness regarding slope movement in sensitive clays has led to major advances in mapping techniques and development of highly sophisticated geotechnical and geophysical investigation tools. Great advances in numerical techniques dealing with progressive failure and landslide kinematic have also lead to increase understanding and predictability of landslides in sensitive clays and their consequences. This volume consists of the latest scientific research by international experts dealing with geological, geotechnical and geophysical aspects of slope failure in sensitive clays and focuses on understanding the full spectrum of challenges presented by landslides in such brittle materials.
  table of contents: Part I: Sensitive clay: source, nature and development -- Part II: Landslide characterization -- Part III: Integrated geotechnical and geophysical site investigations -- Part IV: Slope stability, modelling and progressive failure -- Part V: Hazard assessment, risk management, regulations and policies.
  note: edited by Jean-Sébastien L'Heureux, Ariane Locat, Serge Leroueil, Denis Demers, Jacques Locat.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Science and Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  classification: GB5000-5030
  classification: 551
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 36
  identifier: 9789400770799
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7079-9
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    record creation date: 130917
    record change date: 20151103121907.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-7079-9