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Author : Gesink, D.C.
Date : 1996.
Title : Colluvial sediment routing in the moose river basin: a slope stability analysis approach (Ontario).
Publication : Unpublished MSc thesis. University of Toronto, Toronto.
Issue :
Page(s) : 89 p.
Abstract
Traditionally in geomorphology, slope stability analysis has been used to investigate hillslope evolution, and sediment budgets have been used to develop sediment routing models. This thesis investigates the use of slope stability analysis to model colluvial sediment routing through a mountainous basin in the Canadian Rockies. Two methods of slope stability analysis were used to investigate the movement of colluvial sediment throughout the Moose River basin. The first used traditional geomorphic mapping techniques to interpret mass wasting erosional and depositional features. A GIS-based overlay approach which classified sites in the basin according to potential for failure using slope, land cover, and geologic information, was developed for the second method. the slope failure potential map was used to aid in refining the geomorphic interpretation of the basin, to investigate the factors dominating slope stability in the basin, and to point to potential mas wasting initiation sites. The geomorphic map was used to infer hillslope evolution, and develop a conceptual colluvial sediment routing model for the basin.
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