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Author : Bovis, M.J.; and Evans, S.G.
Date : 1996
Title : Extensive deformations of rock slopes in southern Coast Mountains, southwest British Columbia, Canada.
Publication : Engineering Geology
Issue : 44(1-4):
Page(s) : 163-182
Abstract
Extensive deformations of mountain slopes occur in crystalline intrusive rocks in these mountains. Typical morphological evidence of slope movement includes extensive systems of tension cracks, grabens, and antislope scarps (collectively referred to as linears). These landforms involve displacements along penetrative joints observed in surface exposures. Kinematics tests on rock-structural data indicate that the observed patterns of linears are generally consistent with the feasible gravitational movements along the dominant discontinuities. Most sites indicate sliding as the likely initial mode of movement, followed by or accompanied by toppling and toppling-induced sliding movements, and do not support the view that linears are the traces of active faults.
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