{"id":448,"date":"2009-03-31T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/03\/31\/terrific-rockfall-resource\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:37:33","slug":"terrific-rockfall-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/03\/31\/terrific-rockfall-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrific rockfall resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geosurvey.state.co.us\/\">Colorado Geological Survey<\/a> publishes a terrific quarterly newsletter on &#8220;all aspects of geology throughout the state of Colorado.  The latest edition, which is available online for free from <a href=\"http:\/\/geosurvey.state.co.us\/portals\/0\/rtv11n2.pdf\">here<\/a>, 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:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/bmp\/09_03-colorado-rockfall-2_bmp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 251px;height: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/bmp\/09_03-colorado-rockfall-2_bmp.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/bmp\/09_03-colorado-rockfall-1_bmp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 323px;height: 275px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/bmp\/09_03-colorado-rockfall-1_bmp.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>And this &#8220;spot the difference&#8221; is rather nice too.  The images were taken about 120 years apart:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/bmp\/09_03-colorado-rockfall-3_bmp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 377px;height: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/bmp\/09_03-colorado-rockfall-3_bmp.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Geological Survey publishes a terrific quarterly newsletter on &#8220;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 &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,56,48],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-colorado","tag-rockfall","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}