Week 4

Lecture 7: Shallow Landslide Processes

Outline:

• Infinite slope stability model
• Steady state slope stability threshold
• SHALSTAB model for landslide prediction
• Landslide hydraulics
• Non-slide mass movements

Course reading:

• Selby, M. J. 1987. Slopes and Weathering. In Human Activity and Environmental Processes (Gregory, K. J. and Walling, D. E., eds.) John Wiley & Sonds Ltd., p. 183-205.
• Intro to landslide processes
• Salciarini, D., Godt, J.W., Savage, W.Z., Baum, R.L., Conversini, P. 2008. Modeling landslide recurrence in Seattle, Washington, USA. Engineering Geology 102:3-4:227-237.

Related web links:

• GIS Based Mapping of Slope Stability with Uncertain Parameters
• SINMAP- a stability index approach to terrain stability hazard mapping
• The SHALSTAB stability model
• Venezuela landslide disaster

Lecture 8: Rivers at the Landscape Scale

Outline:

• Why study rivers?
• Morphological range of stream characteristics
• River Processes
  River Classifications

Course reading:

• Grant, G. A., Swanson, F. J., and Wolman, M. G. 1990. Pattern and origin of stepped-bed morphology in high-gradient streams, Western Cascades, Oregon. Geological Society of America bulletin 102:340-352.
• Kasprak AK, Hough-Snee N, Beechie T, Bouwes N, Brierley G, Camp R, Fryirs K, Imaki H, Jensen M, O'Brien G, Rosgen D, and Wheaton JM. 2016. The Blurred Line between Form and Process: a Comparison of Stream Channel Classification Frameworks. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150293.

Related web links:

• SFSU lecture on alluvial rivers.

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