Rapid landslides, characteristics and prediction for hazard assessment
29/05/2008
IPGP - Campus Jussieu
16:00
Séminaires généraux de l’IPGP
Salle Bleue
Oldrich HUNGR
University of Bristish Columbia, Canada
The lecture will cover the typology of rapid landslides such as debris flows, rock avalanches and flow slides. Main mechanisms leading to rapid motion will be described, along with the essentials of practical predictive modeling. Typical case histories will be presented. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Séminaires généraux de l'Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris --------------------------------------------------------------------------------