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The Flims rock avalanche: structure and consequences

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SWISS JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES
卷 115, 期 1, 页码 -

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SPRINGER INT PUBL AG
DOI: 10.1186/s00015-022-00424-x

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Rock avalanches; Geomorphology; Landscape evolution; Dynamic fragmentation; Long-runout; Natural dam breach; Flims rock avalanche; Tamins rock avalanche; Lake Bonaduz; Lake Ilanz

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The Flims rock avalanche occurred in a limestone sequence and the gliding surface was parallel to bedding and/or Alpine foliation. The formation of the rock avalanche was influenced by structural weaknesses in the solid limestone and the involvement of a post-glacial water-saturated substrate. The internal deformation of the rock avalanche was characterized by dynamic fragmentation, with heterogeneity in the distribution. The bulldozing effect of the moving rock avalanche caused the elevation of the valley floor and entrainment of fragments from the valley flank and neighboring Tamins rock avalanche deposit.
The Flims rock avalanche has a gliding surface that cuts down section in a limestone sequence and does not follow a weak horizon. The gliding surface is parallel to bedding and/or to the penetrative Alpine foliation in the limestone that is characterized by a shape-preferred orientation of calcite grains. Predisposition was governed by structural weaknesses in form of sub-vertical fault zones within solid limestone. Faults controlled the orientation of lateral scarps of the rock avalanche. The main body of the rock avalanche behaved as semi-coherent mass, which preserved the original overall structure. The internal deformation occurred by dynamic fragmentation, which was distributed rather heterogeneously. Fragmentation starts by the formation of veins consisting of comminuted limestone. In a later stage crosscutting veins coalesce to form a texture with entirely comminuted limestone (rock flour) containing angular shattered fragments of limestone of variable sizes. The involvment of the post-glacial water-saturated substrate contributed to the long-runout of the Flims rock avalanche. The substrate was plowed bulldozer-wise at the front of the rock avalanche and escaped upward through the moving rock avalanche as clastic dikes and blow-out pipes. Bulldozing raised the valley floor in front of the rock avalanche by more than 100 m and, on the margins, entrained pieces of the valley flank and the neighboring, older Tamins rock avalanche deposit. The liquefied substrate breached the Tamins rock avalanche at Reichenau and entrained fragments thereof down the valley. The fragments now form the famous tumas of Domat/Ems, Felsberg and Chur. Lake Ilanz, dammed the by Flims rock avalanche, experienced a first major outburst shortly after its formation.

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