Rapid loess flow slides in Heifangtai terrace, Gansu, China
Rapid loess flow slides in Heifangtai terrace, Gansu, China
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中国甘肃黑方台梯田黄土快速滑坡
DOI:
10.1144/qjegh2016-065
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发表时间:
2017-05
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
Wang Gonghui
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文献类型:
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作者:
Peng Jianbing;Zhang Fanyu;Wang Gonghui
The Heifangtai is located on the fourth terrace of the Yellow River, c. 60 km to the west of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, China (Fig. 1a). The terrace has an area of 13.7 km 2 and, since the 1960s, has been used as farmland by the people relocated from areas affected by the construction of the Liujiaxia Dam and its associated reservoir on the Yellow River. Large-scale irrigation on the terrace resulting from agricultural land use since the relocation has elevated groundwater levels by c. 20 m as a result of the presence of a relatively impermeable clay layer underlying more permeable loess deposits (Derbyshire et al. 2000; Dijkstra 2000; Zhang et al. 2013; Peng et al. 2016). This in turn has led to the occurrence of about 50 major landslides within the loess deposits of the terrace (Fig. 1b), with the total number of failures exceeding 110 (Peng et al. 2016). These loess landslides have caused more than 40 fatalities and have injured over 100 people. They have also resulted in serious ecological and environmental problems owing to the increased rates of soil erosion, land degradation and ground subsidence associated with them (Zhang et al. 2014).Of particular note amongst the various landslide types that have occurred are loess flow slides, which are the most frequent and catastrophic of the failure types owing to their liquefaction sensitivity, high mobility and long runout distances. The flow slides typically initiate as rotational slides within areas of steeper terrain that contain a zone of saturated material (ie a saturated loess layer) near their base. This saturated zone occurs because of water infiltration from irrigation or canal leakage within the terrace and the presence of relatively impermeable clays beneath the loess deposits, and results in increased pore pressures that can cause static liquefaction of the loess. Retrogression of the initial failure has occurred in almost all recent cases of loess flow slides, with the Luojiapo landslide (Fig. 2) providing a good example of this. In this case, retrogression of the scarp occurred approximately 2½ h after the initial failure, with debris from the secondary failure having notably greater mobility and runout distance than the first flow slide (Figs 2 and 3). Retrogression also commonly occurs in the form of loess slumps, which manifest as local failures within the landslide scarp itself (Figs 4 and 5). Although having much less impact than loess flow slides, the material deposited by these slumps sometimes reactivates and develops into a small loess flow slide as a result of long-term loess softening caused by spring activity (Fig. 5).
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影响因子:
7.4
作者:
Zhang, Dexuan;Wang, Gonghui
通讯作者:
Wang, Gonghui
DOI:
10.1144/qjegh2013-085
发表时间:
2014-04
影响因子:
1.4
作者:
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通讯作者:
Chen, Wenwu
DOI:
10.15273/ijge.2016.02.006
发表时间:
2016
期刊:
--
影响因子:
--
作者:
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通讯作者:
Da-lei Peng;Qiang Xu;Xing Qi;Xuanmei Fan;Xiu-jun Dong;Shu Li;Yuanzhen Ju
影响因子:
7.4
作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
5.2
作者:
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通讯作者:
E. Derbyshire;Xing-min Meng;T. Dijkstra