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| Author | : William Allen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2019-10-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781698279923 |
From out of the clear blue sky, an unknown chunk of rock from the frozen void strikes the Earth with unimaginable force, gouging a wound into the very crust of the planet. Millions die in an instant, and millions more await the end as the looming catastrophe unfolds...Thousands of miles away from the disaster, a call comes in the middle of the night. Families act, and react, and while panic spreads, the world keeps on spinning. Maybe a little slower, and perhaps with a teeny bit more of a tilt, but such things are a mere trifle to the existence of a planet. For the human inhabitants of this planet, though, the meteor's collision will have far-reaching effects as the impact creates ripples throughout their fragile existence.Bryan Hardin just wanted to create a sanctuary in the country for his remaining family, a place to heal his wounded spirit as he struggles with survivor's guilt and approaching middle age. He's hardly the heroic type, but his family is going to need all of them to act like heroes if they are going to survive the spreading effects of the Rockfall. The Earthquakes are Primary Effects.The Tsunami are Secondary Effects.Will Anybody Survive the Tertiary Effects?
| Author | : Theodor H. Erismann |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2013-03-14 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3662046393 |
Mass movement of rocks in high mountains can severely injure the population and damage man-made structures in these areas. This book focuses on the understanding of the mechanisms of rockslides and rockfalls using a quantitative approach. The range and velocity of these hazards are calculated to serve as a basis for evacuations and other preventive measures. Examples from four continents illustrate the necessity of this kind of information. The book contains a wealth of information for practitioners and scientists working in the field of catastrophe prevention.
| Author | : Duncan C. Wyllie |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2014-09-24 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1482219980 |
Rock falls can be a public safety issue. This book provides comprehensive information on identification of these hazards, and design and construction of protection methods.Rock Fall Engineering describes first, the theoretical background to rock fall behavior in terms of the impact and trajectory phases of rock falls, and second, how this informati
| Author | : Stéphane Lambert |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2013-02-07 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1118601610 |
Rockfall Engineering is an up-to-date, international picture of the state of the art in rockfall engineering. The three basic stages of rockfalls are considered: the triggering stage, the motion stage, and the interaction with a structure stage; along with contributions including structural characterization of cliffs, remote monitoring, stability analysis, boulder propagation, design of protection structures an risk assessment. Academic contributions are illustrated by practical examples, and completed by engineering contributions where practical purposes are thoroughly considered. This title is intended for engineers, students as well as researchers.
| Author | : A. Keith Turner |
| Publisher | : Transportation Research Board National Research |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9780309223126 |
| Author | : Dwight Raymond Crandell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 1965 |
| Genre | : Avalanches |
| ISBN | : |
A description of the deposits of seven successive rockfalls and avalanches at Mount Rainier volcano, and of their origin and manner of transport.
| Author | : Willian R. Lund |
| Publisher | : Utah Geological Survey |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 2014-03-26 |
| Genre | : Geology |
| ISBN | : 1557918953 |
On the afternoon of December 12, 2013, a large, joint-controlled block of the Shinarump Conglomerate Member of the Chinle Formation, with an estimated volume of almost 1400 cubic yards and weighing about 2700 tons, detached from the cliff face at the top of the Rockville Bench in Rockville, Utah. The block fell on to the steep Moenkopi Formation slope below the cliff, and shattered into numerous cobble- to very large boulder-sized fragments. The fragments moved rapidly downslope before striking and destroying a house, detached garage, and car at 368 West Main Street in Rockville. The two occupants in the house were killed. The purpose of this 20-page investigation wast to document the characteristics of the fatal rock fall; evaluate future rock-fall hazard at and near the site; and provide recommendations for homeowners, the Town of Rockville, and other officials to consider in managing rock-fall risk. Although the first fatal event, this rock fall is the sixth large rock fall within the Town of Rockville in the 35 years prior to December 12, 2013. Five of those events occurred within the past nine years, and at least three of those struck and damaged structures at the base of the Rockville Bench.
| Author | : Bettina Sellmeier |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2015-11-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3319245104 |
This pioneering work deals with the parameterization of rockfalls in the context of 3D run-out modelling at a study site in the Bavarian Alps. The main objective was to cover not only low-magnitude, high-frequency rockfalls (10 msup3/sup) but also Mid-Magnitude events, which involve rock volumes of between 10 and 100 msup3/sup (boulder falls) and between 100 and 10,000 msup3/sup (block falls). As Mid-Magnitude events have been insufficiently covered in terms of rockfall modelling up to now, a geomechanical approach has been developed to characterize those events by means of a case study. For a 200 msup3/sup limestone block a potential failure scenario was analysed by combining a deterministic failure analysis with a numerical process-based run-out model. To model potential run-out scenarios of the 200 msup3/sup block, the beta version of the code RAMMS::Rockfall, developed by the Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF), was applied. RAMMS::Rockfall makes it possible to include the block shape and thus consider the effects of varying block shapes on the run-out distance. The run-out modelling for the entire project site was performed using the scientific code Rockyfor3D (Dorren/ecorisQ). To provide quantitative information in terms of input parameters, a field recording of block sizes at the talus slope, as well as a detailed discontinuity analysis at the source area, were conducted. The book successfully demonstrates how detailed and quantitative field investigation can contribute to 3D rockfall modelling./pp
| Author | : Washington State Highway Commission |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 54 |
| Release | : 1963 |
| Genre | : Landslides |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Markus Stoffel |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2010-07-15 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9048187362 |
Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same time, unknown to me, Jouko Alestalo in Finland was doing something similar. Both of us had seen that trees which produced annual growth rings were reacting to g- morphic processes resulting in changes in their internal and external growth p- terns. Dendroclimatology was an already well established field, but the reactions of trees to other environmental processes were far less well understood in the 1960s. It was Alestalo (1971) who first used the term, dendrogeomorphology. In the early 1970s, I could see that active slope-movement processes were affecting the growth of trees in diverse ways at certain localities. I wanted to learn more about those processes and try to extract a long-term chronology of movement from the highly diverse ring patterns.
