Analysis and comparison of two types of ground fissures in Dali County in the Weihe Basin, China

• Published in: Environmental earth sciences Vol. 79; no. 1
• Main Authors: Jia, Zhijie, Lu, Quanzhong, Peng, Jianbing, Qiao, Jianwei, Wang, Feiyong, Wang, Shaokai, Zhao, Junyan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.01.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agricultural production; Biogeosciences; Depth profiling; Differential settlement; Disasters; Dredging; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Environmental Science and Engineering; Excavation; Exploration; Field investigations; Fissures (geology); Geochemistry; Geology; Geophysical exploration; Geophysics; Hydrology/Water Resources; Loess; Moisture content; Original Article; Paleosols; Seepage; Soil; Soil investigations; Soil water; Tectonics; Terrestrial Pollution; Water content; Tectonic; Formation mechanism; Collapsibility loess; Ground fissures; Weihe Basin

Dali County is located in the eastern Weihe Basin where frequent ground fissure disasters occur. Dali ground fissures are macroscopically part of the ground fissure group in the Weihe Basin and have caused serious damage to infrastructure and agricultural production in this area. In this paper, 25 g...