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Author : Geertsema, M.; Clague, J.J.; Schwab, J.W.; and Evans, S.G.
Date : 2006.
Title : An overview of recent large catastrophic landslides in northern British Columbia, Canada.
Publication : Engineering Geology
Issue : 83(1-3):
Page(s) : 120-143.
Abstract
At least thirty-eight, large, catastrophic landslides, each either larger than 0.5 M m3 or longer than 1 km, have occurred in northern British Columbia in the last three decades. The landslides include low-gradient flowslides in cohesive sediments, long-runout rock slides (rock avalanches), and complex rock slide-flows. The flowslides have occurred in a variety of sediments, including glaciolacustrine silt, clay-rich till, and clay-rich colluvium. The rock failures have happened in weak shale overlain by sandstone and volcanic rocks. The frequency of large landslides in northern British Columbia appears to be increasing, suggesting a link to climate change.
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