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13 April 2010
Toyota Yaris vs rock…
The Mirror newspaper in the UK yesterday carried a dramatc illustration of the effect that a boulder can have on a car. This car was parked by the side of the road in Hayfield in Derbyshire on Sunday when an eight tonne boulder slipped off a lorry. Fortunately there was no-one in the car: Time to buy a new bottle of T-cut? Picture from the Mirror
6 November 2008
Floods in France
France is currently suffering some terrible flooding that is also resulting in a serious threat of mudslides to the extent that some motorways (freeways) have had to be closed. Although not really landslides, I felt I just had to show the following pictures of the Grangent reservoir on the Loire valley, which has trapped an extraordinary amount of debris washed down the river as a result of the rainfall: Debris …
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.
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