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A portable tilting table for on-site tests of the friction angles of discontinuities in rock masses
Download1992
A portable tilting table can determine the friction angles of smooth surfaces of discontinuities for the assessment of rock slope stability. The lower bound of tests on sandstones is close to the upper bound of results from surfaces lapped with #80 grit, which give basic friction angles....
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1987
Cruden, D. M., Masoumzadeh, S.
A 249 day long record of the accelerating creep of a slope of an open-pit coal mine is analyzed, using linear regression, to test four creep laws. The Saito and Zavodni and Broadbent laws did not lead to a satisfactory estimation of the time of failure as a range of times of failure satisfied the...
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1988
Basic friction angles of the Paleozoic carbonate rocks of Kananaskis Country, west of Calgary, Canada were determined on a tilting table to range from 21.5° to 41.3°. The basic friction angles of carbonate rocks with impurity contents under 10% increase with calcite content and grain size. Clay...
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Exhaustion and steady state models for predicting landslide hazards in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Download1993
The temporal distribution of landslides can be evaluated by steady-state and exhaustion models. The probability of landsliding remains constant through time in the steady-state model but the probability decreases in the exhaustion model as more slopes fail. Rock sliding down bedding surfaces on...
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1996
Abstract: Twenty topples are described from Rock Glacier Site, 2 km north of the summit of the Highwood Pass in the Front Ranges of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta. In situ field testing and laboratory tests indicated that the external force driving the toppling process is frost action within a...
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Landslides in weakly cemented glaciolacustrine sediments, Morkill River valley, British Columbia
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Abstract: Slopes in weakly cemented glaciolacustrine sediments in the Morkill River valley in the Canadian Rocky Mountains stand at up to 70 degrees. Based on field and laboratory observations it appears that a contributing factor to instability is the softening of the soils by frost action and...
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Mesofabric, Microfrabric, and Submicrofabric of Ice-Thrust Bedrock, Highvale Mine, Wabamum Lake Area, Alberta
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Cruden, D. M., Tsui, P. C., Thomson, S.
The fabric of the ice-thrust argillaceous bedrock from a shear zone was studied in hand specimens, under a polarizing microscope and a scanning electron microscope. The fabric included principal displacement shears, Riedel shears, conjugate sets of particle alignments, cutans, lithorelics, and...