Overview
A lavishly illustrated study of landslides and debris flows on theLoess Plateau of north-central China where dense rural populationand human activity has greatly increased landslide hazard. The Loess Plateau lies in the middle reaches of the Yellow Riverand there are a number of cities housing more than a millionpeople. Landslides are triggered by heavy rainstorms andearthquakes have been a recurrent hazard in the loess terrain forover two millennia. The contributors to this book set out with a number of goalsincluding: * establishing the role of bedrock relief in landsliding * studying the nature of the hydrological system within the loessslopes * characterising the modes of failure of the loess fabric * producing a dynamically-based classification of loesslandslides * 'ultimately' establishing criteria for a simple warning systemfor loess slope failure, together with an advisory scheme for localpopulation response to landslide warnings. This book includes over forty colour maps unique in their contentand coverage, showing for the first time the detailed distributionof landslides in the thick loess terrain of eastern Gansu Province,North China.
Full Product Details
Author: Edward Derbyshire ,
Xingmin Meng ,
Tom A. Dijkstra ,
Tom A. Dijkstra (University of Coventry)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 21.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 30.50cm
Weight: 1.191kg
ISBN: 9780471973492
ISBN 10: 0471973491
Pages: 340
Publication Date: 14 January 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
"""...an outstanding contribution to the engineeringgeology and geomorphology of loess"" ""...willnow become one of the standard reference works on loess, and anyoneinvolved with metastable soils should regard this as an essentialpurchase..."" (Geoscientist, January 20021) ""...a well written and informative overview of acomprehensive research programme..."" (Area, Vol.34, No.3,2002)"
...an outstanding contribution to the engineering geology and geomorphology of loess. ...will now become one of the standard reference works on loess, and anyone involved with metastable soils should regard this as an essential purchase... (Geoscientist, January 2001) relevant, clear and useful (Progress in Physical Geography, Vol.26, No.1, 2002)
??an outstanding contribution to the engineering geology and geomorphology of loess? ??will now become one of the standard reference works on loess, and anyone involved with metastable soils should regard this as an essential purchase?? (Geoscientist, January 20021) ?a well written and informative overview of a comprehensive research programme? (Area, Vol.34, No.3, 2002)
Author Information
Edward Derbyshire and Xingmin Meng are the authors of Landslides in the Thick Loess Terrain of North-West China, published by Wiley.
