A complex slope deformation case—history

Slope movements represent a class of phenomena, which can display a great variety of styles, sizes and displacement rates. Some are extremely rapid, short-lived and highly destructive; others are extremely slow and apparently endless. This paper describes an extremely slow soil slope deformation pro...

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Published inLandslides Vol. 19; no. 7; pp. 1649 - 1665
Main Authors Picarelli, L., Santo, A., Di Crescenzo, G., Vassallo, R., Urciuoli, G., Silvestri, F., Olivares, L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Agriculture
Civil Engineering
Conglomerates
Deformation
Deformation mechanisms
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Earthquakes
Geography
Geological processes
Geology
Geomorphology
Natural Hazards
Original Paper
Satellite imagery
Seismic activity
Slopes
Soil erosion
Spaceborne remote sensing
Displacement field
Pore pressure regime
Slope deformation
Earthquake
Erosion
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Summary:Slope movements represent a class of phenomena, which can display a great variety of styles, sizes and displacement rates. Some are extremely rapid, short-lived and highly destructive; others are extremely slow and apparently endless. This paper describes an extremely slow soil slope deformation process that is probably active since thousands of years and will certainly go on for many years to come. The results of in-depth investigations carried out after the 1980 Irpinia-Basilicata earthquake integrated by satellite images covering the time interval 1992–2013 have provided a global and consistent framework that allows to draw a reliable scenario about the effects of the geological processes that are active in the area on slope deformation mechanisms.
ISSN:1612-510X
1612-5118
DOI:10.1007/s10346-022-01866-y