{"id":33093,"date":"2020-02-18T06:58:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=33093"},"modified":"2020-02-18T07:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T07:03:35","slug":"tylorstown-landslide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2020\/02\/18\/tylorstown-landslide-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Further information about the Tylorstown landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Further information about the Tylorstown landslide<\/h4>\n

Yesterday more information emerged about the Tylorstown landslide in South Wales on Sunday 16 February<\/a>, which was caught on video.\u00a0 Many thanks to the various comments and observations that I’ve received.<\/p>\n

The most useful information comes in the form of a pair of oblique aerial images that were tweeted<\/a> by the National Police Air Service<\/span> South West Region<\/a>, who overflew the landslide.\u00a0 This is one of the two images:-<\/p>\n

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Oblique aerial photograph of the Tylorstown landslide in South Wales. Image tweeted by NPAS SW<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

This image shows that the failure originated in the upper of the two spoil heaps.\u00a0 There can be little doubt that this is coal waste. The failure appears to have started as a rotational slip in the spoil, and a part of the rotated, back-tilted block is clearly visible.\u00a0 The lower part of the block has fragmented to form the flows that have reached and inundated the river.<\/p>\n

These flows can be seen in more detail in the image below:-<\/p>\n

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Oblique aerial photograph of the Tylorstown landslide in South Wales. Image tweeted by NPAS SW<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

This second image shows that the displaced block has failed to generate the flows, and the amount of material in the watercourse.\u00a0 Interestingly, it also hints that there may be a further failure developing to the right of the slipped mass, although better imagery is needed to be clear.<\/p>\n

Rotational failure that transitions into a flow is the classic failure mode for coal waste in South Wales – indeed the official tribunal<\/a> found that this was the mechanism for the Aberfan landslide.\u00a0 This was the description of the landslide<\/a>:-<\/p>\n

“On 21st October 1966 there were a number of slipping movements of a rotational kind accompanied by settlements of the crest of the tip. These movements gave rise about 9-10 a.m. to a flow slide, the relatively dry material in the flow slide pouring down the mountainside and into the village. it was this flow slide which engulfed the school and houses in Moy Road.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The waste pile is not shown on the 25 inch OS map that was published in 1919, but it is depicted on the 1956 map<\/a>. Interestingly the early maps show a stream flowing through the site. It is not clear as to what happened to this stream when the waste was dumped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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