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Factors influencing development of cracking-sliding failures of loess across the eastern Huangtu Plateau of China

Journal

NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 1223-1231

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COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-18-1223-2018

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Funding

  1. Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [41630640]
  2. Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [41790445]
  3. Fund Program for the Scientific Activities of Selected Returned Overseas Professionals in Shanxi Province
  4. Shanxi Scholarship Council of China
  5. Outstanding Innovative Teams of Higher Learning Institutions of Shanxi
  6. Soft-science Fund Project of Science and Technology in Shanxi
  7. Research Project for Young Sanjin Scholarship of Shanxi
  8. Collaborative Innovation Center for Geohazard Process and Prevention at Taiyuan Univ. of Tech.
  9. Recruitment Program for Young Professionals of China

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Loess is a porous, weakly cemented, and unsaturated Quaternary sediment deposited by the wind in arid and semiarid regions. Loess is widely and thickly distributed in China, making the Huangtu Plateau the largest bulk accumulation of loess on Earth. However, the fragile geoenvironment in the loess areas of China causes frequent and various geohazards, such as cracking-sliding failure (benghua in Chinese), which is a typical geohazard that causes the largest number of casualties each year. This study investigates the main influencing factors and development patterns of cracking-sliding failure of loess to help prevent its occurrence and reduce losses effectively. The following conclusions are derived from this study: (1) cracking-sliding failures mostly take place in rectilinear slopes, convex slopes, slopes with gradients greater than 60 degrees, slopes with heights of 5 to 40 m, and slopes mostly exposed to sunlight with aspects of 180 to 270 degrees; (2) cracking-sliding failures occur mostly from 10 pm to 4 am and mainly in the rainy season (July to September) and in the freeze-thaw season (March to April); and (3) highly intense human activities in the region correspond to a high possibility of cracking-sliding failures.

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