{"id":4503,"date":"2012-03-19T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2012-03-19T12:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:42:42","slug":"landslides-and-constrictions-a-request-for-help-and-incidentally-an-amazing-benefit-of-geoblogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/19\/landslides-and-constrictions-a-request-for-help-and-incidentally-an-amazing-benefit-of-geoblogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides and constrictions – a request for help (and, incidentally, an amazing benefit of geoblogging)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I started this blog over three years ago I was not aware of the potential benefits that it would bring.\u00a0 There have been many, and I can honestly say that running the blog has created opportunities to me travel and to publish; to meet new colleagues; to engage with new audiences; and to learn a great deal.\u00a0 It has been a key part of my career in recent years.\u00a0 On Friday of last week a new, really wonderful, thing happened.\u00a0 Funded under a joint European Union \/ Durham University scheme<\/a>, Professor Susan Kieffer<\/a> came to IHRR in Durham<\/a> to stay for three months in order that we can work on a project together.\u00a0 Sue runs a great blog called Geology in Motion<\/a> – check it out – and we started communicating as a result of our blogs.\u00a0 So it is really the most surprising and amazing benefit of blogging to have formed a new academic collaboration with someone like Sue as a consequence of this activity.\u00a0 Needless to say we’ll both be blogging about our work together over the coming weeks – and indeed she has a post about the river in Durham on her blog today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, after that rather long introduction, we have a request for you.\u00a0 In our work together we are exploring the ways in which landslides behave as they pass through constrictions – i.e. narrowing points in the channel or track.\u00a0 Lots of work has been undertaken on rivers as they pass through constritions, but very little about landslides.\u00a0 We both feel that understanding behaviour in such settings might tell us a great deal about landslide dynamics and mechanics.<\/p>\n

So this is where you can play a role.\u00a0 We are trying to create a database of landslides that have passed through (or been stopped by) a constriction.\u00a0 By this we mean a point in which the track or channel narrows.\u00a0 An example is the Slumgullion landslide in Colorado<\/a>, which goes through a fairly gentle constriction along track (images from my earlier post about the landslide<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Actually there is a second constriction (abeit a smaller one) further down the track as well, if you look carefully.<\/p>\n

So, we are inviting readers to send us examples of landslides with constrictions.\u00a0 It can be any type of landslide in any environment, with any type of constriction (this could be natural or artificial).\u00a0 The key is that we are interested in places in which the track of the landslide is narrowed by the topography.\u00a0 Please provide examples either by emailing them to me (d.n.petley@durham.ac.uk) or as a comment on this post.<\/p>\n

Thanks – this is a really interesting science project, not least because it has come about as a result of blogging.\u00a0 It is even more fun to think that the examples that we use might be blog generated as well!\u00a0 We will of course acknowedge your help and can make the data available in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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