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Landslides in the Rocky Mountains of Canada

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Geomorphological Hazards in High Mountain Areas

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Landslides from steep rock slopes can travel large distances and have catastrophic impacts on structures in their paths (Nicoletti and Sorriso-Valvo, 1991). Site reconnaissances in mountain regions seek to identify slopes which may move in the future and to locate facilities away from the consequences of these movements. So reconnaissance requires identifying potentially unstable slopes.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2G7

    D. M. Cruden

  2. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E3

    X. Q. Hu

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  1. Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jan Kalvoda

  2. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

    Charles L. Rosenfeld

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Cruden, D.M., Hu, X.Q. (1998). Landslides in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. In: Kalvoda, J., Rosenfeld, C.L. (eds) Geomorphological Hazards in High Mountain Areas. The GeoJournal Library, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5228-0_8

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