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Analysis of Landslide Occurences in Idaho Item Info
- Title:
- Analysis of Landslide Occurences in Idaho
- Creator:
- Adams, Wayne C.
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1988
- Description:
- Thesis (M.S., Geological Engineering) -- University of Idaho, 1988
- Abstract:
- The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the relation between landslides in Idaho and several related site conditions. In this landslide study I gathered information from landslide sites in order to attain two goals. The first goal was to evaluate the number of failures associated with earth-materials. The second goal was to determine the site characteristics that are most likely to promote failure in these materials. I propose that a simple inventory of site conditions from known landslides coupled with a careful data analysis can direct an investigator to a particular earth-material that has significant landsliding potential. The scope of the study involved an analysis of the site conditions from over 1500 landslides. The methods used in this analysis of landslides were based on the following set of nine interactive site conditions: elevation, slope angle, slope aspect, rock type or material origin, presence of formational contact, presence of mapped fault, square mile area, precipitation and snow load. The initial data gathering was completed for the Landslide Inventory of Idaho, a project funded by the Idaho Geological Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey. The landslides were categorized by the "naturally occurring" materials at the failure site. The data describing each landslide site were gleaned from several sources and map scales. The precipitation and snow load values were assigned after the initial inventory using a weighted averaging technique based on the spatial dependence of the values.
- Subjects:
- landslides
- Original Format:
- text
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Language:
- eng
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- "Analysis of Landslide Occurences in Idaho", Institutional Repository Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/ir/items/ir0110.html
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