1st Edition

Landslides Proceedings of the 9th international conference and field trip, Bristol, 16 September 1999

Edited By J.S. Griffiths, M.R. Stokes, R.G. Thomas Copyright 1999

    This text gives an overview of the main landslide field sites. It covers aspects of recent landslide research at the University of Wollongong.
    Topics: An overview of the main landslide field sites in the 9th ICFL; Aspects of recent landslide research at the University of Wollongong; Infiltration of rainwater and slope failure; Landslide hazards and highway engineering in Central and Northern Jordan; El Niño 1997-98: Direct costs of damaging landslides in the San Francisco Bay region; Mass movement features in the vincinity of the town Sorbas, South-east Spain; The movements and the countermeasures of the Choja Landslide; Interest in landslide hazard information - Parallels between Kingston, Jamaica and the San Francisco Bay region, USA; Slide activity in quick clay related to pore water pressure and weather parameters; Old and recent landslides of Barranco de Tirajana basin, Gran Canaria, Spain.

    1: Field trip workshop; 1: An overview of the main landslide field sites in the 9th ICFL; 2: Conference; 2: Aspects of recent landslide research at the University of Wollongong; 3: Infiltration of rainwater and slope failure; 4: Landslide hazards and highway engineering in Central and Northem Jordan; 5: El Niño 1997–98: Direct costs of damaging landslides in the San Francisco Bay region; 6: Mass movement features in the vicinity of the town of Sorbas, South-east Spain; 7: The movements and the countermeasures of the ‘Choja Landslide’; 8: Interest in landslide hazard information - Parallels between Kingston, Jamaica and the San Francisco Bay region, USA; 9: Slide activity in quick clay related to pore water pressure and weather parameters; 10: Old and recent landslides of the Barranco de Tirajana basin, Gran Canaria, Spain; 11: Tracking active landslide creep and its response to El Niño and local seismicity: A case history from the Penitencia Creek landslide, Santa Clara County, California, USA; 12: Variety of landslides in Poland, and their possible dependence on neogeodynamics; 13: Slope stability analysis of landslides masses of different shapes; 14: Small-scale mass movement failures in Early to Mid Pleistocene fluvial deposits in the Vera Basin, South-east Spain; 15: Landslide activity and land utilisation at the high river bank zones; 16: Scenic drive landslide, San Mateo County, Califomia, triggered by El Niño

    Biography

    J.S. Griffiths