Initiation and runout characteristics of debris flow surges in Ohya landslide scar, Japan

Imaizumi, Fumitoshi; Masui, Takeshi; Yokota, Yushi; Tsunetaka, Haruka; Hayakawa, Yuichi S.; Hotta, Norifumi

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.04.026

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“…This peculiar and antimetric behaviour indicates that sediment availability along the channel, at slope gradients lower than 0.3, strongly influenced the erosion-deposition dynamics at Cancia. Similar patterns were described by Imaizumi et al (2019), who indicated repetitive mass movements and deposition episodes as responsible for debris flow surges along the channel.…”

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“…On the one hand, different flow characteristics observed in the time-lapse videos are likely caused by the depletion of sediment along the channel bed upstream of the monitoring station, produced by the first event. Under reduced sediment availability conditions, a solid granular flow cannot fully develop and the sediment-fluid flow that develops is highly turbulent, fully saturated (Imaizumi et al, 2019) and shows scarce to no coarse particle segregation. On the other hand, both events mobilized the majority of sediment along the upper channel between the monitoring station and the first sediment retention basin (about 700m), where the slope exceeds 20°.…”

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Runoff‐generated debris flows: Observation of initiation conditions and erosion–deposition dynamics along the channel at Cancia (eastern Italian Alps)

Simoni

Bernard

Berti

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Earth Surf Processes Landf

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In the Dolomitic region, abundant coarse hillslope sediment is commonly found at the toe of rocky cliffs. Ephemeral channels originate where lower permeability bedrock surfaces concentrate surface runoff. Debris flows initiate along such channels following intense rainfall and determine the progressive erosion and deepening of the channels. Sediment recharge mechanisms include rock fall, dry ravel processes and channel-bank failures. Here we document debris flow activity that took place in an active debris flow basin during the year 2015. The Cancia basin is located on the southwestern slope of Mount Antelao (3264ma.s.l.) in the dolomitic region of the eastern Italian Alps. The 2.5km 2 basin is incised in dolomitic limestone rocks. The data consist of repeated topographic surveys, distributed rainfall measurements, time-lapse (2s) videos of two events and pore pressure measurements in the channel bed. During July and August 2015, two debris flow events occurred, following similarly intense rainstorms. We compared rainfall data to existing rainfall triggering thresholds and simulated the hydrological response of the headwater catchment with a distributed model in order to estimate the total and peak water discharge. Our data clearly illustrate how debris entrainment along the channel is the main contributor to the overall mobilized volume and that erosion is dominant when the channel slope exceeds 16°. Further downstream, sediment accumulation and depletion occurred alternately for the two successive events, indicating that sediment availability along the channel also influences the flow behaviour along the prevailing-transport reach. The comparison between monitoring data, topographical analysis and hydrological simulation allows the estimation of the average solid concentration of the two events and suggests that debris availability has a significant influence on the debris flow volume.

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Runoff‐generated debris flows: Observation of initiation conditions and erosion–deposition dynamics along the channel at Cancia (eastern Italian Alps)

Simoni

Bernard

Berti

et al. 2020

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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“…The largest debris flow observation station was opened in 1961 in China in the Jiangjai River Basin in the suburb of Donchuan, Yunnan Province [9]. Moreover, special equipment was installed in Ohya landslide, central Japan [10]. Since 2002 about 19 debris flow stations have been opened in Taiwan [11].…”

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Comparison of Debris Flow Modeling Results with Empirical Formulas Applied to Russian Mountains Areas

Kurovskaia¹,

Vinogradova²,

Vasiakina³

2020

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Construction of debris flow protection structures is impossible without studying the processes first. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to calculate the magnitude of debris flows in three study areas. Initial information was provided by JSC Sevkavgiprovodkhoz and the Research Center "Geodinamika". The first object of this research was the river Ardon and its tributary the Buddon, because of disastrous consequences for Mizur village of passed debris flows and floods. Modeling of unsteady water movement was carried out for estimation of potential flooding. During modeling, 5 cases of flash floods and debris flows of various probabilities from 0.5% to 1% percent were considered. Therefore, maximum floods for the cross-sections above and in the Mizur village itself were obtained. The second study area was the Chat-Bash stream, which is also situated in the north of Caucasus mountains. For this stream, the maximum discharge that could impact the mining complex at Tyrnyauz was determined. The third study area was the Krasnoselskaia river due to frequent floods in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Applying three cases of various probabilities from 10% to 0.1%, the model determined maximum discharge and water level for the last cross-section above confluence into the Susuya river. Numerical experiments for all study areas with different roughness values were conducted to identify optimal ones. Comparing the model results for all study areas with empirical formulas (Golubcov V.V., Herheulidze I.I., Kkhann, Sribnyj and ASFS of EMERCOM of Russia) revealed that formulas contain only average depth slope angle and empirical coefficients and do not allow estimating flood areas and maximum characteristics of the event with a certain degree of accuracy.

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“…Although UAVs have been relatively recently in use for scientific purposes, the range of problems investigated with the use of UAVs is increasing and covers a variety of natural processes: fires [Gerasimov et al, 2014;González-Jorge et al, 2017], floods [Feng et al, 2015;Popescu et al, 2017;Izumida et al, 2017], land-slides and karsts [Luo et al, 2019;Fan et al, 2017;Comert et al, 2019;Karantanellis et al, 2019;Pellicani et al, 2019;Valkaniotis et al, 2018;Lazzari, Piccarreta, 2018], debris flows [Adams et al, 2016;Imaizumi et al, 2019;Liu et al, 2015;Hänsel et al, 2018], rock collapse [Buill et al, 2016;Coe et al, 2016], volcanoes [Nagatani et al, 2018], glaciers monitoring [Buri et al, 2016;Benoit et al, 2019;Immerzeel et al, 2014], etc.…”

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Experience of using non‐specialized unmanned aerial vehicles for aerial surveys in the studies of exogenous geological processes

Rybchenko

Kadetova

Козырева

et al. 2019

Geodin. tektonofiz.

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The article reviews the experience of aerial surveys using a quadcopter DJI Inspire 1 PRO (unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV) for solving problems of engineering geodynamics. It describes the application of photogrammetry to estimate quantitative parameters of the studied objects, the experience of using UAVs to study flood processes in the Tunka valley (Russia) and erosion structures in the Ulaanbaatar agglomeration (Mongolia). The first UAV‐acquired data on debris flow alluvial fans and elementary drainage basins of erosion structures are presented. The ranges of UAV flight heights were 100–150 m and 1–30 m for local and detailed aerial photography surveys, respectively. Local surveys covered relatively large objects – debris flow alluvial fans and drainage basins. Detailed aerial photography aimed to investigate the granulometric compositions of debris flow deposits and to construct transverse profiles of erosion structures. Processed aerial photos provided a basis for a schematic map showing the distribution of accumu‐ lated debris flow deposits. The granulometric compositions of coarse fractions in the debris flow deposits were de‐ termined. Based on the survey results, 3D models of the fragments of the erosion structures and their cross‐sections were constructed.

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Initiation and runout characteristics of debris flow surges in Ohya landslide scar, Japan

Cited by 50 publications

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Runoff‐generated debris flows: Observation of initiation conditions and erosion–deposition dynamics along the channel at Cancia (eastern Italian Alps)

Runoff‐generated debris flows: Observation of initiation conditions and erosion–deposition dynamics along the channel at Cancia (eastern Italian Alps)

Comparison of Debris Flow Modeling Results with Empirical Formulas Applied to Russian Mountains Areas

Experience of using non‐specialized unmanned aerial vehicles for aerial surveys in the studies of exogenous geological processes

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