| Title | Field and Laboratory Investigations of Variably Saturated, Potential Landslides |
| Publication Type | Thesis |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Authors | Morse, Michael S. |
| Degree | Ph. D. |
| Pagination | 102 p. |
| University | Colorado School of Mines |
| City | Golden, Col. |
| Type of Work | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | Umpqua River Basin, Elliott State Forest, coastal hazards, landslides, sediments, geology, paleosciences, erosion, precipitation, climate, mathematical modeling, theses |
| Notes | This doctoral dissertation involves a study of a steep basin in the Umpqua River watershed. “Presented here are newly applied remote sensing techniques intended to improve slope stability characterization methods at a variety of scales. Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) was used to quickly estimate soil thickness over a steep (33–40°) zero-order basin in the Oregon Coast Range” (from the Abstract) In addition to fieldwork, laboratory studies were conducted in which “a particle image velocimetry (PIV) tool was used to observe shear plane development and strain localization in a tabletop vertical cut slope simulator prior to slope failure” (from the Abstract). The author also revised Culmann’s Method, a critical height analytical formula and extended it to work in three dimensions and in unsaturated soils. |
| URL | https://repository.mines.edu/handle/11124/170313 |
