{"id":6082,"date":"2013-03-04T08:17:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T08:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2013-03-04T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T08:17:07","slug":"new-images-of-the-hatfield-colliery-coal-mine-landslide-in-northern-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/03\/04\/new-images-of-the-hatfield-colliery-coal-mine-landslide-in-northern-england\/","title":{"rendered":"New images of the Hatfield Colliery (coal mine) landslide in northern England"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been little news from the Hatfield Colliery site<\/a> for several days now, although Network Rail (the track operators) have revealed that they do not expect it to be reinstated until June, and the costs are expected to be very high<\/a>.\u00a0 Meanwhile, on Twitter, sammie_spad<\/a> (who appears to be a train guard) has posted four images of the landslide toe (two of them below):<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/twitter.com\/sammie_spad<\/p><\/div>\n

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https:\/\/twitter.com\/sammie_spad<\/p><\/div>\n

First thing to note is that the landslide presumably has stopped moving now as whilst it was moving no-one was allowed onto the track.\u00a0 Second, and less obviously, the patterns of ground deformation are really amazing!\u00a0 I am particularly intrigued by the process that is occurring at the foot of the toe bulge – (the right side of the deformed railway line above).\u00a0 Here, the trackside infrastructure and the trees are all leaning toward the landslide (i.e. back-tilted).\u00a0 There are several explanations for why this might have happened – it could be that the loading from the landslide toe has deformed the sediments ahead of the slide, or it could be that the material beyond the track is also a part of the landslide, with a “fault” between the two sections, for example.\u00a0 Any thoughts from anyone?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately these images do not tell us what is happening up at the top of the slope.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the BGS now has a very nice summary page about the landslide on their website<\/a>.\u00a0 The analysis of the historical maps is particularly interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New images have appeared on Twitter of the Hatfield Colliery landslide. These show some amazing deformation patterns at the toe of the landslide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[469,21,959,80,133],"class_list":["post-6082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-featured","tag-images","tag-landslide-report","tag-railway","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","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=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}