Book contents
- Landslides
- Landslides
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Landslide hazard and risk
- 2 Landslides in the Earth system
- 3 Earthquake ground motion and patterns of seismically induced landsliding
- 4 Landslides at stratovolcanoes initiated by volcanic unrest
- 5 Mobility of long-runout rock avalanches
- 6 Rapid rock-slope failures
- 7 Risk assessments for debris flows
- 8 Landslides in quick clay
- 9 Controls on the distribution of major types of submarine landslides
- 10 Tsunami hazard assessment related to slope failures in coastal waters
- 11 Physical impacts of climate change on landslide occurrence and related adaptation
- 12 Landslides and geologic environments
- 13 Numerical modeling of rock-slope instability
- 14 Remote sensing techniques and landslides
- 15 Engineering geomorphology of landslides
- 16 Developments in landslide runout prediction
- 17 Models of the triggering of landslides during earthquakes
- 18 Slow rock-slope deformation
- 19 Landslide monitoring:
- 20 Groundwater in slopes
- 21 Soil slope stabilization
- 22 Rockfall characterization and modeling
- 23 The 2006 Eiger rockslide, European Alps
- 24 Randa:
- 25 Characterization and management of rockslide hazard at Turtle Mountain, Alberta, Canada
- 26 The Åknes rockslide, Norway
- 27 A seismometric approach for back-analyzing an unusual rockfall in the Apennines of Italy
- 28 Downie Slide, British Columbia, Canada
- 29 The 1963 Vaiont landslide, Italy
- 30 Hong Kong landslides
- 31 Landslides induced by the Wenchuan earthquake
- 32 Landslides on other planets
- Index
20 - Groundwater in slopes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Landslides
- Landslides
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Landslide hazard and risk
- 2 Landslides in the Earth system
- 3 Earthquake ground motion and patterns of seismically induced landsliding
- 4 Landslides at stratovolcanoes initiated by volcanic unrest
- 5 Mobility of long-runout rock avalanches
- 6 Rapid rock-slope failures
- 7 Risk assessments for debris flows
- 8 Landslides in quick clay
- 9 Controls on the distribution of major types of submarine landslides
- 10 Tsunami hazard assessment related to slope failures in coastal waters
- 11 Physical impacts of climate change on landslide occurrence and related adaptation
- 12 Landslides and geologic environments
- 13 Numerical modeling of rock-slope instability
- 14 Remote sensing techniques and landslides
- 15 Engineering geomorphology of landslides
- 16 Developments in landslide runout prediction
- 17 Models of the triggering of landslides during earthquakes
- 18 Slow rock-slope deformation
- 19 Landslide monitoring:
- 20 Groundwater in slopes
- 21 Soil slope stabilization
- 22 Rockfall characterization and modeling
- 23 The 2006 Eiger rockslide, European Alps
- 24 Randa:
- 25 Characterization and management of rockslide hazard at Turtle Mountain, Alberta, Canada
- 26 The Åknes rockslide, Norway
- 27 A seismometric approach for back-analyzing an unusual rockfall in the Apennines of Italy
- 28 Downie Slide, British Columbia, Canada
- 29 The 1963 Vaiont landslide, Italy
- 30 Hong Kong landslides
- 31 Landslides induced by the Wenchuan earthquake
- 32 Landslides on other planets
- Index
Summary
Groundwater flows in the pores and fractures of soils and rocks, driven by changing mechanical and environmental boundary conditions, for example air temperature, humidity, and precipitation. Because the groundwater environment continuously changes, the steady-state condition is only a theoretical concept: the movement of water in soils and rocks is transient, and any change is delayed with respect to the trigger. This chapter focuses on the role of time and the effects of anthropogenic, natural, and climatic processes on groundwater flow and slope behavior. The unsaturated condition is considered a normal soil state and the saturated condition a special case.
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- LandslidesTypes, Mechanisms and Modeling, pp. 235 - 251Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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