31 March 2009
Terrific rockfall resource
Posted by Dave Petley
The Colorado Geological Survey publishes a terrific quarterly newsletter on “all aspects of geology throughout the state of Colorado. The latest edition, which is available online for free from here, focuses on rockfalls. It is a terrific read, with some very interesting articles on how and why rockfalls happen; how they can be detected; mitigation approaches; and a number of case studies. It is illustrated with some great photos as well. My favourite two, showing the range of scales of hazardous rockfalls:
And this “spot the difference” is rather nice too. The images were taken about 120 years apart:
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
Hello, i’m Paolo Cortopassi from Italy (Tuscany), and i’m a geologist. Excuse me for my no perfect english; i hope you understand me. Your Blog is wonderful for me, but i want to say also another thing: i have had your same idea or similar and so i have a blog that speaks about landslides. My blog is called “Fiabe e frane” (siteweb is: fiabeefrane.wordpress.com; the meaning is: tales (for children) and landslide. Infact i’m a geologist but i like to write for children of primary school. Just today i’ve been first time in your blog, but now i want to study better your work, because i think i’ll learn many things, sure.i’ll see you later. Bye and… good work. Paolo Cortopassi
hey im carmen fisher from Pennsylvania. I’m a 10 yr. old girl living a happy life. I enjoy studying rocks and anything that has to do with landslides. Im currently working on a science project on landslides and youre blog was a great resource. You can count on it that i will be back looking at your blog and doing more research! Well i have to go! Great jod and Talk to you later!