Abstract
Landslides are a typical geological hazard that can cause large numbers of casualties and huge economic losses, and the overflow of a weir from a blocked river landslide can have even more disastrous consequences. Of the different types of landslides, about 33% of landslides happen in anti-dip slopes. This paper reports a massive ancient anti-dip river-damming landslide on the Jinsha River: the Zongrongcun landslide. Field investigation and theoretical analysis were used to reveal the potential mechanism of this ancient landslide, and the block discrete element software 3DEC was used to replicate its landslide process. The findings from the present study are as follows: (1) blocks in this landslide were classified into significant slide, significant toppling, and significant slide categories based on Df. (2) The whole landslide was divided into significant sliding and toppling zones by Df = 0.5. (3) The results show that the river-damming landslide was likely to be triggered by river erosion, heavy rainfall, gravity. Under strong valley trenching, the rocks on the slope fractured under gravity and tectonic stress. These factors caused rock blocks tensile fracture failure. Then a penetrating sliding surface formed on the slope, which subsequently caused this river-damming landslide.
Funder
National Key Research and Development Program of China
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Geography, Planning and Development,Building and Construction
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2 articles.
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