GEOL 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Open-Pit Mining, Delta C, Basalt

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: John Hanes

Document Summary

13/11/2017 - landslides ***similar process for avalanches: quake at border of iran and iraq m7. 3, possibly deadliest of 2017 (nov 13, death toll at 400. Land slides - mass wasting & slope stability: mass wasting: downward movement of solid earth materials under just the influence of gravity, note that rivers carrying material is not mass wasting, can be small scale or large ex. Soil/ aggregates--ie broken down rocks etc (loose stuff= debris) So according to hanes: classification is based on, mechanism (flow, slip and wall) , velocity ( low to high) **check picture of table. Fall: high velocity: 1. rock fall or debris fall -- only one type of fall (high velocity) Stuff falls directly down due to acceleration as a result of gravitational pull (free fall: vertical fall from a cliff. Slip mechanism (from high to low velocity: high velocity greater than 5km/hr (2. translational, rock or debris, planar surface of slip, bc - layers sliding down into roadway.