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Giant landslides, topography, and erosion
Oliver Korup,John J. Clague,Reginald L. Hermanns,Kenneth Hewitt,Alexander Strom,Johannes T. Weidinger +5 more
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In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between mean local relief and the occurrence of terrestrial landslides on Earth and find that nearly two-thirds of these giant landslides have occurred in the steepest 5% of the Earth's land surface, where relief is close to its upper strength limit.About:
This article is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.The article was published on 2007-09-30. It has received 316 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Landslide & Denudation.read more
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State of science: mental workload in ergonomics
TL;DR: This work provides a general overview of the current state of affairs regarding the understanding, measurement and application of MWL in the design of complex systems over the last three decades, and discusses contemporary challenges for applied research.
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Landslide erosion controlled by hillslope material
TL;DR: A wide-ranging analysis of landslide geometry shows that soil-based landslides are generally less voluminous than landslides that involve the failure of bedrock, and provides refined metrics for estimating the volume of a landslide from the area of the failure as discussed by the authors.
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Earthquake-Induced Chains of Geologic Hazards: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts
Xuanmei Fan,Gianvito Scaringi,Gianvito Scaringi,Oliver Korup,A. Joshua West,Cees J. van Westen,Hakan Tanyas,Niels Hovius,Tristram Hales,Randall W. Jibson,Kate E. Allstadt,Li Min Zhang,Stephen G. Evans,Chong Xu,Gen Li,Xiangjun Pei,Qiang Xu,Runqiu Huang +17 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how earthquakes trigger landslides and highlight research gaps, and suggest pathways toward a more complete understanding of the seismic effects on the Earth's surface, highlighting research gaps.
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Nature and timing of large landslides in the Himalaya and Transhimalaya of northern India
TL;DR: In this article, four large landslides, each with a debris volume >10 6 m 3, in the Himalaya and Transhimalaya of northern India were examined, mapped, and dated using 10 Be terrestrial cosmogenic radionuclide surface exposure dating.
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Recent extreme slope failures in glacial environments: effects of thermal perturbation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on thermal aspects of these failures reflecting the involvement of glacier ice and permafrost at all sites, suggesting that thermal perturbations likely contributed to the slope failures.
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Landslide inventories and their statistical properties
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined three well-documented landslide events, from Italy, Guatemala and the USA, each with a different triggering mechanism, and found that the landslide areas for all three are well approximated by the same three-parameter inverse-gamma distribution.
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Bedrock incision, rock uplift and threshold hillslopes in the northwestern Himalayas
Douglas W. Burbank,John Leland,Eric J. Fielding,Robert S. Anderson,Nicholas Brozovic,Mary R. Reid,Chris Duncan +6 more
TL;DR: The topography of tectonically active mountain ranges reflects a poorly understood competition between bedrock uplift and erosion as mentioned in this paper, and the Indus river incises through the bedrock at extremely high rates (2-12 mm yr-1).
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Topographic controls on erosion rates in tectonically active mountain ranges
TL;DR: The functional relationship between erosion rate and topography is central to understanding both controls on global sediment flux and the potential for feedback between tectonics, climate, and erosion in shaping topography.
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Mountain erosion over 10 yr, 10 k.y., and 10 m.y. time scales
James W. Kirchner,Robert C. Finkel,Clifford S. Riebe,Darryl E. Granger,James L. Clayton,John G. King,Walter F. Megahan +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used cosmogenic 10 Be to measure erosion rates over 10 k.y. time scales at 32 Idaho mountain catchments, ranging from small experimental watersheds (0.2 km 2 )t o large river basins (35 000 km 2 ).
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Geomorphic limits to climate-induced increases in topographic relief
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that geomorphic constraints allow only a relatively small increase in topographic relief in response to climate change, whereas climate change may cause significant increases in denudation rates, potentially establishing an important feedback between surficial and crustal processes.