NH34A:
Advances in Analysis and Prediction of Rock Falls, Rock Slides, and Rock Avalanches I


Session ID#: 10978

Session Description:
Rock slope failures are among the most widespread and damaging rapid mass movements affecting mountainous areas, resulting in significant loss of life and property across the world each year. They also represent a potent erosional force capable of efficiently modifying landscapes. Modern hazard analyses demand deeper understanding of the triggering, failure mechanisms, and runout processes of rock slope failures. We invite novel contributions on rock falls, rock slides, and rock avalanches that either advance existing methods of analysis or present new understanding of phenomena. Topics may include theoretical and analytical developments, field and laboratory studies, monitoring strategies, geochronology, analytical and numerical modeling, or new methods in hazard assessment.
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey R Moore, University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Brian D Collins, USGS Landslide Hazards Program, Moffett Field, United States and Greg M Stock, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA, United States
Chairs:  Jeffrey R Moore, University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Brian D Collins, USGS Landslide Hazards Program, Moffett Field, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jeffrey R Moore, University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

1130 Geomorphological geochronology [GEOCHRONOLOGY]
1826 Geomorphology: hillslope [HYDROLOGY]
4302 Geological [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Progress in Predicting Rock-Slope Failures (Invited) (61043)
Oliver Korup, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Time-Dependent Rock Failure in a Heterogeneous Limestone (82775)
Karen Roth, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and John Kemeny, University of Arizona and SUAVAI Geo Inc., Tucson, United States
MODELLING AND SEISMIC OBSERVATION OF ROCKFALLS IN THE DOLOMIEU CRATER, PITON DE LA FOURNAISE, LA REUNION (63173)
Virginie Durand1, Pauline Le Bouteiller2, Anne Mangeney3, El Hadji Kone2, Antoine Protin2, Philippe Kowalski4, Frederic Lauret4, Christophe Brunet4 and Arthur Delorme5, (1)GeoAzur, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France, (2)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (3)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, (4)IPGP, Observatoire Volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise, Bourg Murat, France, (5)Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France
Automated Detection and Classification of Rockfall Induced Seismic Signals with Hidden-Markov-Models (72316)
Martin Zeckra, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 5.1, Potsdam, Germany, Niels Hovius, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Section 4.6 Geomorphology, Potsdam, Germany, Arnaud Burtin, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Division of Geomorphology, Postdam, Germany and Conny Hammer, University Potsdam, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Potsdam, Germany
Seismic Ground Motion and Boulder Formation Along the Margins of the Dead Sea Fault System, Southern Israel (Invited) (62223)
Ari Matmon1, Yair Rinat1, Alan J. Hidy2 and Shalev Siman-Tov1, (1)Hebrew Univ, Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Verifying the new luminescence surface-exposure dating technique--rock falls in Canyonlands National Park, Utah (80637)
Joel Lawrence Pederson, Utah State University, Department of Geosciences, Logan, UT, United States, Reza Sohbati, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Physics, Roskilde, Denmark, Andrew Roderick Murray, Aarhus University, Risø Campus, Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence Dating, Department of Geoscience, Roskilde, Denmark and Mayank Jain, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus, Roskilde, Denmark
Forensic Analysis of the May 2014 West Salt Creek Rock Avalanche in Western Colorado (Invited) (62243)
Jeffrey A. Coe1, Rex L Baum2, Kate Allstadt3, Bernard F. Kochevar4, Robert G. Schmitt2, Matthew L. Morgan5, Jon L. White5, Benjamin T. Stratton6, Timothy A. Hayashi4 and Jason W Kean7, (1)USGS, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States, (4)Mesa County, Department of Public Works, Grand Junction, CO, United States, (5)Colorado Geological Survey, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (6)US Forest Service, Gunnison District Office, Gunnison, CO, United States, (7)U.S. Geological Survey, Landslide Hazards Program, Golden, CO, United States
Earth’s Largest Terrestrial Landslide (The Markagunt Gravity Slide of Southwest Utah): Insights from the Catastrophic Collapse of a Volcanic Field (Invited) (76934)
David B. Hacker, Kent State University, Department of Geology, Kent, OH, United States, Robert F. Biek, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, United States and Peter D Rowley, Geologic Mapping Inc., New Harmony, UT, United States

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