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Author : Cruden, D.M.
Date : 1985
Title : Rock slope movements in the Canadian cordillera
Publication : Canadian Geotechnical Journal
Issue : 22:
Page(s) : 528-540



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Abstract

Some recent work on natural rock slope movements in the Cordillera is reviewed. Climate, geology, and seismicity combine to produce rockslides in the Mackenzies and Rockies; slower, more complex bedrock flows in the Omineca Belt; spreads and flows with the volcanics of the Intermontane Belt; and rockslides, falls, debris flows and earthflows in the Coastal and Insular Belts. Major rockslides occur on overdip slopes in sedimentary, metamorphic, and volcanic successions. Natural causes of the slides include erosion of the toes and lateral margins of the rock slopes

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