sturzstrom

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sturzstrom (plural sturzstroms or sturzströme)

  1. A rock avalanche, a large landslide of soil and rock which travels a much greater horizontal than vertical distance.
    • 1996, Sturzstroms and Detachment Faults, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California:
      [see title]
    • 2001 December 6, U. Briegel, Wen-Jiao Xiao, Paradoxes in Geology, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 249:
      ... sturzstrom deposits suggest that sturzstroms are emplaced as collections of fragments through which deformation is concentrated along their base and, possibly, also along narrow bands at higher levels.
    • 2012, Bernd Imre, Micromechanical Analyses of Sturzstroms (rock Avalanches) on Earth and Mars, vdf Hochschulverlag AG, →ISBN, page 122:
      Such behaviour reverses when the sturzstrom eventually slows down.
    • 2012, Canadian Geotechnical Journal: Revue Canadienne de Géotechnique:
      Sturzströme, irrespective of their provenance, have elements in common suggesting a ubiquitous mechanism of motion and emplacement. The elements in question are discussed in the following paragraphs. Sturzströme move at great [speed...]
    • 2012 December 2, Natural Phenomena, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 90:
      ... sturzstrom deposit leaves no doubt that the descent of a rockfall mass is not the result of sliding of a rigid mass, simply because the geometry of the sturzstrom deposit is different from that of original rock mass. Even so, […]
    • 2002 January 1, Stephen G. Evans, Jerome V. DeGraff, Catastrophic Landslides: Effects, Occurrence, and Mechanisms, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, page 392:
      ... sturzstrom deposit shows shear surfaces, or ramps, that step up eastward (Fig. 17). The ramps are seen in the walls of canyons incised subparallel to the paleoflow direction. It seems that as some basal Split Mountain sturzstrom […]
    • 2013 April 15, Andrew Goudie, Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1009:
      A sturzstrom is a high volume of mostly dry rock material caused by the collapse of a slope or cliff created by large falls and slides moving at high velocities and for long distances, even on a gentle slope […]
    • 2018 March 22, Ramesh Singh, Darius Bartlett, Natural Hazards: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Landslides, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 305:
      […] a wide range of ground movements, for example, rockfalls, shallow debris flows, earthflows, mudflows and sturzströme.
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