Mudflows and Landslides

Mudflows and Landslides
Author: Michael Woods
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2006-12-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0822565749

Describes mudflows and landslides, providing information on how they develop, where they are most likely to occur, what tragedies have happened in the past, and what steps can be taken to develop warning systems that will save lives.

Mudflows and Landslides

Mudflows and Landslides
Author: Michael Woods
Publisher: Lerner Books [UK]
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 076134408X

With dramatic images and first-hand survivor stories plus the latest facts and figures, this series takes you up close with the world's most devastating disasters. Each book covers a disaster from both the scientific and human side, capturing the impact and the emotion through primary source quotations and photographs.

Landslides and Mudslides Reshape Earth!

Landslides and Mudslides Reshape Earth!
Author: Abby Badach Doyle
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1538258331

Look out below! Landslides and mudslides are some of the most dangerous forces in nature. In seconds, these roaring rivers of earth and rocks can uproot trees, flip cars, and destroy whole neighborhoods. Readers of this action-packed book will learn many earth-shattering facts, such as that a mudslide can move at speeds up to 50 miles per hour. Diagrams explain how and why these natural disasters happen. Amazing archival photographs and sidebars give an up-close look at historic landslides and mudslides from the past.

Landslides

Landslides
Author: John Hamilton
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1604532459

Examines landslides in places such as the Philippines, California, and China, and describes what causes them and how to be safe from them.

River Dynamics and Integrated River Management

River Dynamics and Integrated River Management
Author: Zhao-Yin Wang
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 855
Release: 2014-09-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 364225652X

"River Dynamics and Integrated River Management” provides comprehensive information on rivers for integrated management, including natural processes, stresses resulting from human activities, and restoration of various parts of the river basin, including the watershed, mountain streams, alluvial rivers, estuaries, and natural and man-made lakes. Essential concepts, traditional and modern, such as river patterns, step-pool systems, vegetation-erosion charts, habitat diversity, and flushing times of bays, are clearly defined physically and explained with figures and pictures. Detailed mathematics and rigorous analyses are avoided so as to facilitate a holistic view of the subject of integrated river management. Researchers can easily familiarize themselves with the science of river management in its widest sense with the impressive pictures and examples in this book. Dr. Zhaoyin Wang is a professor at the Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. Dr. Joseph H.W. Lee is a Chair Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China. Dr. Charles S. Melching is a Professor at the College of Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Introduction to the Physics of Landslides

Introduction to the Physics of Landslides
Author: Fabio Vittorio de Blasio
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2011-05-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400711220

Landslides represent one of the most destructive natural catastrophes. They can reach extremely long distances and velocities, and are capable of wiping out human communities and settlements. Yet landslides have a creative facet as they contribute to the modification of the landscape. They are the consequence of the gravity pull jointly with the tectonic disturbance of our living planet. Landslides are most often studied within a geotechnical and geomorphological perspective. Engineering calculations are traditionally applied to the stability of terrains. In this book, landslides are viewed as a physical phenomenon. A physical understanding of landslides is a basis for modeling and mitigation and for understanding their flow behavior and dynamics. We still know relatively little about many aspects of landslide physics. It is only recently that the field of landslide dynamics is approaching a more mature stage. This is testified by the release of modelling tools for the simulation of landslides and debris flows. In this book the emphasis is placed on the problems at the frontier of landslide research. Each chapter is self-consistent, with questions and arguments introduced from the beginning.

Landslides

Landslides
Author: Anne Ylvisaker
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780736815079

Describes how and why landslides happen, the damage they cause, ways to avoid and survive this natural disaster, and famous landslides of the past.