Chapter 2

Slope Movement
Types and
Processes
DavidJ. Varnes

This chapter reviews a fairly complete range of slope- having some usefulness in emphasizing features pertinent
movement processes and identifies and classifies them ac- to recognition,avoidance, control, correction,or other pur-
cording to features that are also to some degree relevant to pose for the classification. Among the attributes that have
their recognition, avoidance, control, or correction. Al- been used as criteria for identification and classification
though the classification of landslides presented in Special are type of movement, kind of material, rate of movement,
Report 29 (2.182) has been well received by the profession, geometry of the area of failure and the resulting deposit,
some deficiencies have become apparent since that report age, causes, degree of disruption of the displaced mass, re-
was published in 1958; in particular, more than two dozen lation or lack of relation of slide geometry to geologic
partial or complete classifications have appeared in various structure, degree of development, geographic location of
languages, and many new data on slope processes have been type examples, and state of activity.
published. The chief criteria used in the classification presented
One obvious change is the use of the term slope move- here are, as in 1958, type of movement primarily and type
ments, rather than landslides, in the title of this chapter of material secondarily. Types of movement (defined be-
and in the classification chart. The term landslide is widely low) are divided into five main groups: falls, topples,
used and, no doubt, will continue to be used as an all- slides, spreads, and flows. A sixth group, complex slope
inclusive term for almost all varieties of slope movements, movements, includes combinations of two or more of the
including some that involve little o-r no true sliding. Never- other five types. Materials are divided into two classes:
theless, improvements in technical communication require rock and engineering soil; soil is further divided into de-
a deliberate and sustained effort to increase the precision bris and earth. Some of the various combinations of move-
associated with the meaning of words, and therefore the ments and materials are shown by diagrams in Figure 2.1
term slide will not be used to refer to movements that do (in pocket in back of book); an abbreyiated version is shown
not include sliding. However, there seems to be no single in Figure 2.2. Of course, the type of both movement and
simple term that embraces the range of processes discussed
here. Geomorphologists will see that this discussion com-
prises what they refer to as mass wasting or mass move- Figure 2.2. Abbreviated classification of slope movements.
ments, except for subsidence or other forms of ground (Figure 2.1 in pocket in back of book gives complete classification
sinking. with drawings and explanatory text.)
The classification described in Special Report 29 is here
TYPE OF MA TERIAL
extended to include extremely slow distributed movements TYPE OF MOVEMENT ENGINEERING SOILS
BEDROCK
of both rock and soil; those movements are designated in Predominontly coOrse Predominontly fine

Debris toll
many classifications as creep. The classification also in- FALLS Rock lou Earth toll

Earth topple
TOPPLES Rock topple Debris topple
cludes the increasingly recognized overturning or toppling ROTATIONAL FEW
Rock Slump Debris slump Earth Slump

failures and spreading movements. More attention is paid SLIDES

UNITS Rock block slide Debris block slide IEarth block Slide
TRANSLATIONAL
to features associated with movements due to freezing and Rock slide Debris slide Earth slide

Rock Spread Debris np,eod I Earth spread

thawing, although avalanches composed mostly of snow LATERAL SPREADS
Rock flow Debris flow I Earth flow
and ice are, as before, excluded. F LOWS
Ideep creepl iscreepl

Combination of two or more principal types of movement

Slope movements may be classified in many ways, each COM PLEX

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materials may vary from place to place or from time to fall is a fall of debris, which is composed of de'trital frag-
time, and nearly continuous gradation may exist in both; ments prior to failure. Rapp (2.131, p. 104) suggested that
therefore, a rigid classification is neither practical nor de- falls of newly detached material be called primary and those
sirable. Our debts to the earlier work of Sharpe (2.146) involving earlier transported loose debris, such as that from
remain and are augmented by borrowings from many other shelves, be called secondary. Among those termed debris
sources, including, particularly, Skempton and Hutchinson falls here, Rapp (2.131, p.97) also distinguished pebble falls
(2,154), Nemok, Paiek, and Rybi (2.116), de Freitas and (size less than 20 mm), cobble falls (more than 20 mm, but
Watters (2.37), Zruba and Mend (2.193), and Zischinsky less than 200 mm), and boulder falls (more than 200 mm).
(2.194). Discussions with D. H. Radbruch-Hall of the U.S. Included within falls would be the raveling of a thin collu-
Geological Survey have led to significant beneficial changes vial layer, as illustrated by Deere and Patton (2.36), and of
in both content and format of the presentation. fractured, steeply dipping weathered rock, as illustrated by
The classification presented here is concerned less with Sowers (2.162).
affixing short one- or two-word names to somewhat com- The falls of less along bluffs of the lower Mississippi
plicated slope processes and their deposits than with de- River valley, described in a section on debris falls by
veloping and attempting to make more precise a useful Sharpe (2.146, p. 75), would be called earth falls (or less
vocabulary of terms by which these processes and deposits falls) in the present classification.
may be described. For example, the word creep is partic-
ularly troublesome because it has been used long and Topples
widely, but with differing meanings, in both the material
sciences, such as metallurgy, and in the earth sciences, Topples have been recognized relatively recently as a dis-
such as geomorphology. As the terminology of physics tinct type of movement. This kind of movement consists
and materials science becomes more and more applied to of the forward rotation of a unit or units about some pivot
the behavior of soil and rock, it becomes necessary to en- point, below or low in the unit, under the action of gravity
sure that the word creep conveys in each instance the con- and forces exerted by adjacent units or by fluids in cracks.
cept intended by the author. Similarly, the word flow has It is tilting without collapse. The most detailed descrip-
been used in somewhat different senses by various authors tions have been given by de Freitas and Watters (2.37), and
to describe the behavior of earth materials. To clarify the some of their drawings are reproduced in Figure [Link] and
meaning of the terms used here, verbal definitions and dis- d2. From their studies in the British Isles, they concluded
cussions are employed in conjunction with illustrations of that toppling failures are not unusual, can develop in a va-
both idealized and actual examples to build up descriptors riety of rock types,and can range in volume from 100 m3
of movement, material, morphology, and other attributes to more than 1 Gm3 (130 to 1.3 billion yd3). Toppling
that may be required to characterize types of slope move- may or may-not culminate in either falling or sliding, de-
ments satisfactorily. pending on the geometry of the failing mass and the orien-
tation and extent of the discontinuities. Toppling failure
TERMS RELATING TO has been pictured by Hoek (2.61), Aisenstein (2.1, p. 375),
MOVEMENT and Bukovansky, RodrIquez, and Cedri:in (2.16) and studied
in detail in laboratory experiments with blocks by Hofmann
Kinds of Movement (2.63). Forward rotation was noted in the Kimbley copper
pit by Hamel (2.56), analyzed in a high rock cut by Piteau
Since all movement between bodies is only relative, a de- and others (2.125), and described among the prefailure
scription of slope movements must necessarily give some movements at Vaiont by Hofmann (2.62).
attention to identifying the. bodies that are in relative mo-
tion. For example, the word slide specifies relative motion Slides
between stable ground and moving ground in which the
vectors of relative motion are parallel to the surface of In true slides, the movement consists of shear strain and
separation or rupture; furthermore, the bodies remain in displacement along one or several surfaces that are visible
contact. The word flow, however, refers not to the mo- or may reasonably be inferred, or within a relatively nar-
tions of the moving mass relative to stable ground, but row zone. The movement may be progressive; that is,
rather to the distribution and continuity of relative move- shear failure may not initially occur simultaneously over
ments of particles within the moving mass itself. what eventually becomes a defined surface, of rupture, but
rather it may propagate from an area of local failure. The
Falls displaced mass may slide beyond the original surface of
rupture onto what had been the original ground surface,
In falls, a mass of any size is detached from a steep slope or which then becomes a surface of separation.
cliff, along a surface on which little or no shear displacement Slides were subdivided in the classification published in
takes place, and descends mostly through the air by free 1958 (2.182) into (a) those in which the material in motion
fall, leaping, bounding, or rolling. Movements are very rapid is not greatly deformed and consists of one or a few units
to extremely rapid (see rate of movement scale, Figure 2.1u) and (b) those in which the material is greatly deformed or
and may or may not be preceded by minor movements consists ofmany semi-independent units. These subtypes
leading to progressive separation of the mass from its source. were further classed into rotational slides and planar slides.
Rock fall is a fall of newly detached mass from an area In the present classification, emphasis is put on the distinc-
of bedrock. An example is shown in Figure 2.3. Debris tion between rotational and translational slides, for that

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Figure 2.3. Rock fall due to undercutting along shore of Las unit commonly tilts backward toward the slope (Figures
Vegas Bay, Lake Mead, Nevada (photograph taken February [Link], 2.1i, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7), but some blocks may
24, 1949) (2.182). Rock is Muddy Creek formation (Pliocene) tilt forward.
consisting here of siltstone overlain by indurated breccia.
Figure 2.6 shows some of the commoner varieties of
slump failure in various kinds of materials. Figure 2.7
shows the backward tilting of strata exposed in a longitu-
dinal section through a small slump in lake beds. Although
the rupture surface of slumps is generally concave upward,
it is seldom a spherical segment of uniform curvature. Often
the shape of the surface is greatly influenced by faults,
joints, bedding, or other preexisting discontinuities of the
material. The influence of such discontinuities must be con-
sidered carefully when the engineer makes a slope-stability
analysis that assumes a certain configuration for the surface
of rupture. Figures 2.7 and 2.8 show how the surface of
rupture may follow bedding planes for a considerable part
of its length. Upward thrusting and slickensides along the
lateral margin of the toe of a slump are shown in Figure 2.9.
Figure 2.4. Slope failure in uniform material (2.182).
The classic purely rotational slump on a surface of
1.1 DflOPd WAPFfl bI ROTATIONAL SHEAR ON smooth curvature is relatively uncommon among the
CYLINDRICAL SURFACE
many types of gravitational movement to which geologic
materials are subject. Since rotational slides occur most
frequently in fairly homogeneous materials, their incidence
among constructed embankments and fills, and hence their
interest to engineers, has perhaps been high relative to other
types of failure, and their methods of analysis have in the
THRUSTING AT THE TOE
past been more actively studied. Geologic materials are
seldom uniform, however, and natural slides tend to be
complex or at least significantly controlled in their mode
of movement by internal inhomogeneities and discontinu-
difference is of at least equal significance in the analysis of ities. Moreover, deeper and deeper artificial cuts for dam-
stability and the design of control methods. An indication sites, highways, and other engineering works have increas-
of degree of disruption is still available by use of the terms ingly produced failures not amenable to analysis by the
block or intact for slides consisting of one or a few mov- methods appropriate to circular arc slides and have made
ing units and the terms broken or disrupted for those con- necessary the development of new methods of analytical
sisting of many units; these terms avoid a possible source design for prevention or cure of failures in both bedrock
of confusion, pointed out by D. H. Radbruch-Hall, in the and engineering soils.
use of the term debris slide, which is now meant to indi- The scarp at the head of a slump may be almost vertical.
cate only a slide originating in debris material, which may If the main mass of the slide moves down very far, the
either proceed as a relatively unbroken block or lead to dis- steep scarp is left unsupported and the stage is set for a
ruption into many units, each consisting of debris. new failure (similar to the original slump) at the crown of
the slide. Occasionally, the scarps along the lateral mar-
Rotational Slides gins of the upper part of the slide may also be so high and
steep that slump blocks break off along the sides and move
The commonest examples of rotational slides are little- downward and inward toward the middle of the main slide.
deformed slumps, which are slides along a surface of rup- Figure 2.10 (2.183) shows a plan view of slump units along
ture that is curved concavely upward. Slumps, and slumps the upper margins of a slide; the longest dimensions of
combined with other types of movement, make up a high these units are parallel with, rather than perpendicular to,
proportion of landslide problems facing the engineer. The the direction of movement of the main slide. Any water
movement in slumps takes place only along internal slip that finds its way into the head of a slump may be ponded
surfaces. The exposed cracks are concentric in plan and by the backward tilt of the unit blocks or by other irregu-
concave toward the direction of movement. In many larities in topography so that the slide is kept wet con-
slumps the underlying surface of rupture, together with stantly. By the successive creation of steep scarps and trap-
the exposed scarps, is spoon-shaped (Figure 2.4). If the ping of water, slumps often become self-perpetuating areas
slide extends for a considerable distance along the slope of instability and may continue to move and enlarge inter-
perpendicular to the direction of movement, much of the inittently until a stable slope of very low gradient is at-
rupture surface may approach the shape of a sector of a tained.
cylinder whose axis is parallel to the slope (Figure 2.4). In
slumps, the movement is more or less rotational about an Translational Slides
axis that is parallel to the slope. In the head area, the
movement may be almost wholly downward and have In translational sliding the mass progresses out or down
little apparent rotation; however, the top surface of each and out along a more or less planar or gently undulatory

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surface and has little of the rotary movement or backward tween layers of bedded deposits, or by the contact between
tilting characteristic of slump. The moving mass com- firm bedrock and overlying detritus (Figure 2.11). Several
monly slides out on the original ground surface. The dis- examples of block slides are shown in Figures 2.lj2, 2.11,
tinction between rotational and translational slides is use- 2.12, 2.13 (2.136), 2.14 (2.107), and 2.15. In many trans-
ful in planning control measures. The rotary movement of lational slides, the slide mass is greatly deformed or breaks
a slump, if the surface of rupture dips into the hill at the up into many more or less independent units. As deforma-
foot of the slide, tends to restore equilibrium in the un- tion and disintegration continue, and especially as water
stable mass; the driving moment during movement de- content or velocity or both increase, the broken or dis-
creases and the slide may stop moving. A translational rupted slide mass may change into 'a flow; however, all
slide, however, may progress indefinitely if the surface on gradations exist. Broken translational slides of rock are
which it rests is sufficiently inclined and as long as the shear shown in Figure 2.lj3 and of debris in Figures 2.1k and
resistance along this surface remains lower than the more 2.16 (2.83).
or less constant driving force. A translational slide in which
the moving mass consists of a single unit that is not greatly Lateral Spreads
deformed or a few closely related units may be called a
block slide. If the moving mass consists of many semi- In spreads, the dominant mode of movement is lateral ex-
independent units, it is termed a broken or disrupted. slide. tension accommodated by shear or tensile fractures. Two
The movement of translational slides is commonly con- types may be distinguished.
trolled structurally by surfaces of weakness, such as faults,
j9ints, bedding planes, and variations in shear strength be- 1. Distributed movements result in overall extension

Figure 2.5. Varieties of slump

(2.182). 1 (a) SLOPE FAILURE IN HOMOGENEOUS MATERIAL. )b) SLOPE FAILURE IN NONHOMOGENEOUS MATERIAL.
CIRCULAR ARC. (1) SLIDE WHOLLY ON SLOPE AND SURFACE OF RUPTURE FOLLOWS DIPPING WEAK
(2) SURFACE OF RUPTURE INTERSECTS TOE OF BED.
SLOPE.

r2
I' off
clay
Firm

lId BASE FAILURE IN HOMOGENEOUS CLAY. SLIP

(d) BASE FAILURE IN NONHOMOGENEOUS MATERIAL.
CIRCLE TANGENT TO FIRM BASE, CENTER ON
SURFACE OF RUPTURE FOLLOWS BED OF VERY
VERTICAL BISECTOR OF SLOPE. SOFT CLAY.

-- -- Groben

lo erycloy/////////////

Soil (a) SLIDE BENEATH SIDEHILI. (f) FAILURE WITHIN A SIDEHILL FILL.

CU '\ Original ground line

Sand-
stone
Fill
Fill
Coal
Clay

Shole

(g) FAILURE OF EMBANKMENT. GRAVEL COUNTER. (h) SLIDE IN FILL INVOLVING UNDERTHRUSTING OF
WEIGHT ON LEFT SIDE PREVENTS SLIDE. FIRM SURFACE MATERIAL DOWN SLOPE.

Fill

Fill
Zunterw:ht r
Fill

Soft
zone

Stable \
Firm...

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Figure 2.6. Slump of fill, but without a recognized or well-defined controlling basal
controlled in this shear surface or zone of plastic flow. These appear to occur
instance by failure i predominantly in bedrock, especially on the crests of ridges
in underlying soil 7' (Figure 2.1m1). The mechanics of movement are not well
(2.182).
known.
2. Movements may involve fracturing and extension of
coherent material, either bedrock or soil, owing to liquefac-
tion or plastic flow of subjacent material. The coherent
upper units may subside, translate, rotate, or disintegrate,
or they may liquefy and flow. The mechanism of failure
Figure 2.7. Slump in thinly bedded lake deposits of silt and clay can involve elements not only of rotation and translation
in Columbia River valley (note backward tilting of beds above but also of flow; hence, lateral spreading failures of this
surface of rupture) (2.182).
type may be properly regarded as complex. They form,
however, such a distinctive and dominant species in certain
geologic situations that specific recognition seems worth-
while.

Examples of the second type of spread in bedrock are

shown in Figure 2.1m2 and 2.1m3. In both examples,
taken from actual landslides in the USSR and Libya respec-
tively, a thick layer of coherent rock overlies soft shale and
.._
- -...
e-- 5.' .".......'.-
. -..* -4.
. Figure 2.10. Ames slide near Telluride, Colorado (2.182, 2.183).
.' ;. ., .. . 4.'
This slump-earth flow landslide occurred in glacial till overlying
Mancos shale. Repeated slumping took place along upper margins
after main body of material had moved down. Long axes of slump
blocks B and B'are parallel with rather than perpendicular to
direction of movement of main part of slide. Blocks B and B'
Figure 2.8. Slump in bedded deposits similar to those shown in moved toward left, rather than toward observer.
Figure 2.7 (note that surface of rupture follows horizontal
bedding plane for part of its length) (2.182).

WA ZONE A
Movement chiefly by large-
scal, slumping along slip
surf ecu
A. A' A"
Principal slump units
i- 8,81
Narrow slump unit with
.4. .' axes perpendicular to
axes of main slump units
and parallel with length
-.4- -. of main slide
B
Island remaining after
downward movement of
unit D from area B.

lt&

Figure 2.9. Slickensides in foot area of shallow slide in Pennington

ZONE B
shale residuum (highly weathered clay shale) along 1-40 in Roane Zone of earth flow;
County. Tennessee. movement chiefly by
flowage.

'.5
I- '- - -,

ZONE c
Toe of slide area; original
form altered by railroad
reconstruction work.

100 m

328 ft

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Figure 2.11. Thin layer of residual debris that slid on inclined Figure 2.13. Development
strata of metasiltstone along 1-40 in Cocke County, Tennessee. of landslides in horizontal
sequence of claystone and (D -- -
coal caused by relaxation -
of horizontal stresses - - - -
resulting from reduction in
thickness of overlying strata
(2.136).

Ic)

(d)

CLAYSTONE Q COAL
Figure 2.12. Block slide at quarry (2.182).
Figure 2.14. Section view of translational slide
at Point Fermin, near Los Angeles, California
(see also Figure 2.15) (2107, 2.182).
Maximum average rate of movement was
3cm/week (1.2 in).

800 m
.1
2400 ft

S1!Rrure

claystone. The underlying layer became plastic and flowed taken depends on local factors. Most of the larger land-
to some extent, allowing the overlying firmer rock to break slides in glacial sediments of' northern North America and
into strips and blocks that then became separated. The Scandinavia lie somewhere within this series.
cracks between the blocks were filled with either soft ma- Lateral spreads in surficial deposits have been destructive
terial squeezed UI) from below or detritus from above. The of both life and property and have, therefore, been the sub-
lateral extent of these slides is remarkable, involving hands ject olintensive study. Examples may be cited from Sweden
several to many kilometers wide around the edges of pla- (Caldenius and Lundstrom, 2.18), Canada (Mitchell and
teaus and escarpments. The rate of movement of most lat- Markell, 2.108), Alaska (Seed and Wilson, 2J44), and
eral spreads in bedrock is apparently extremely slow. California (Youd, 2.191). Most of the spreading failures
Laterally spreading slope movements also form in fine- in the western United States generally involve less than total
grained earth material on shallow slopes, particularly in liquefact ion and seem to have been mobilized only by seis-
sensitive silt and clay that loses most or all of its shear mic shock. For example, there were damaging failures in
strength on disturbance or remolding. The failure is tisti- San Fernando Valley. California, during the 1969 earth-
ally progressive; that is, it starts in a local area and spreads. quake because of liquefaction of underlying sand and silt
Often the initial failure is a slump along a stream bank or and spreading of the surficial, firmer material. The spread-
shore, and the progressive failure extends retrogressively ing failure of Bootlegger Cove clay beneath the Turnagain
back from the initial failure farther and farther into the Heights residential district at Anchorage, Alaska, during
bank. The principal movement is translation rather than the 1964 great earthquake resulted in some loss of life and
rotation. If the underlying mobile zone is thick, the blocks extensive damage. In some areas within the city of San
at the head may sink downward as grabens, not necessarily Francisco, the principal damage due to the 1906 earth-
with backward rotation, and there may be upward and out- quake resulted from spreading failures that not only did
ward extrusion and now at the toe. Movement generally direct damage to structures but also severed principal water-
begins suddenly, without appreciable warning, and proceeds supply lines and thereby hindered firefighting.
with rapid to very rapid velocity. All investigators would agree that spreading failures in
These types appear to be members of a gradational series glacial and marine sediments of Pleistocene age present
of landslides in surficial materials ranging from block slides some common and characteristic feat tires: Movement of-
at one extreme, in which the zone of how beneath the slid- ten occurs for no apparent external reason, failure is gen-
ing mass may be absent or very thin, to earth flows or com- erally sudden, gentle slopes are often unstable, dominant
pletely liquefied mud (lows at the other extreme, in which movement is translatory, materials are sensitive, and pore-
the zone of flow includes the entire mass. The form that is water pressure is important in causing instability. All de-

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Figure 2.15. Translational slide at Point Fermin, California. tion may be recoverable over a period of time upon release
Photograph, which was taken January 17, 1965, indicates minor of the stress, but generally most of it is not. The move-
slumping into gap at rear of main mass and imminent rock falls ment commonly is imperceptible (which is usually one of
at sea cliff. Principal motion, however, was by sliding along the essential attributes of creep as defined in geomorphol-
gently seaward dipping strata.
ogy), but increasingly sophisticated methods of measure-
ment make this requirement difficult to apply. Further-
more, the usual partition of creep into three stages
primary (decelerating), secondary (steady or nearly so),
and tertiary (accelerating to failure)certainly includes
perceptible deformation in the final stages. Laboratory
studies show that both soil and rock, as well as metals, can
exhibit all three stages of creep. Observations in the field,
such as those reported by Muller (2.112) at Vaiont, em-
brace within the term creep perceptible movements that
immediately preceded catastrophic failure.
There is disagreement also as to whether creep in rock
and soil should be restricted to those movements that are
distributed through a mass rather than along a defined
fracture. Authorities are about equally divided on this
point but, in keeping with the use of the term in engineer-
ing mechanics, the acceptance of this restriction is not
favored. Creep movements can occur in many kinds of
topples, slides, spreads, and flows, and the term creep
need not be restricted to slow, spatially continuous defor-
Figure 2.16. Debris slide of disintegrating soil
mation. Therefore, spatially continuous deformations are
slip variety (2.83, 2.182).
classified as various types of flow in rock, debris, and earth.

Flows in Bedrock

Flow movements in bedrock include deformations that are

distributed among many large or small fractures, or even
microfractures, without concentration of displacement
along a through-going fracture. The movements are generally
extremely slow and are apparently more or less steady in
time, although few data are available. Flow movements
may result in folding, bending, bulging, or other manifes-
tations of plastic behavior, as shown in Figure 2.1pi, 2.1p2,
grees of disturbance of the masses have been observed; some 2.1 p3,and 2.1 p4. The distribution of velocities may roughly
failures consist almost entirely of one large slab or "flake," simulate that of viscous fluids, as shown in Figure 12.1p5.
but others liquefy almost entirely to small chunks or mud. These kinds of movements have come under close study
only within the last decade or so and are being recognized
Flows more and more frequently in areas of high relief in many
parts of the world. They are quite varied in character, and
Many examples of slope movement cannot be classed as several kinds have been described as creep by Nemok,
falls, topples, slides, or spreads. In unconsolidated mate- Paek, and Rybi (2.116) in a general classification of land-
rials, these generally take the form of fairly obvious flows, slides and other mass movements, as gravitational slope de-
either fast or slow, wet or dry. In bedrock, the movements formation by Neinok (2.114, 2.115), by the term Sackung
most difficult to categorize include those that are extremely (approximate translation: sagging) by Zischinsky (2.194,
slow and distributed among many closely spaced, noninter- 2.195), as depth creep of slopes by Ter-Stepanian (2.172),
connected fractures or those movements within the rock and as gravitational faulting by Beck (2.5). In the United
mass that result in folding, bending, or bulging. In many States, ridge-top depressions due to large-scale creep have
instances, the distribution of velocities resembles that of been described by Tabor (2.166). A review of gravitational
viscous fluids; hence, the movements may be described as creep (mass rock creep) together with descriptions of ex-
a form of flow of intact rock. amples from the United States and other countries has
Much of what is here described under flowlike distrib- been prepared by Radbruch-HaIl (2.130). The significance
uted movements has been classified as creep, both of rock of these relatively slow but pervasive movements to human
and soil. But creep has come to mean different things to works on and within rock slopes is only beginning to be
different persons, and it seems best to avoid the term or to appreciated.
use it in a well-defined manner. As used here, creep is con-
sidered to have a meaning similar to that used in mechanics Flows in Debris and Earth
of materials; that is, creep is simply deformation that con-
tinues under constant stress. Some of the creep deforma- Distributed movements within debris and earth are often

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 more accurately recognized as flows than those in rocks be- Figure 2.17. Debris avalanche or very rapid debris flow at
cause the relative displacements within the mass are com- Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, June 24, 1948, after several
monly larger and more closely distributed and the general days of heavy rainfall (2.182). Only soil mantle 2 to 5 m (7 to
6 ft) thick, which lay over bedrock on a slope of about 1:1,
appearance is more obviously that of a body that has be-
was involved. Scar is about 450 m (1500 ft) long; natural levees
haved like a fluid. Moreover, the fluidizing effect of water can be seen along sides of flow. US-3 is in foreground.
itself is, as a rule, a part of the process. Slip surfaces within
the moving mass are usually not visible or are short lived,
and the boundary between moving mass and material in
place may be a sharp surface of differential movement or
a zone of distributed shear.
There is complete gradation from debris slides to debris
flows, depending on water content, mobility, and character
of the movement, and from debris slide to debris avalanche
as movement becomes much more rapid because of lower
cohesion or higher water content and generally steeper
slopes. Debris slides and, less commonly, debris avalanches
may have slump blocks at their heads. In debris slides, the
moving mass breaks up into smaller and smaller parts as it
advances toward the foot, and the movement is usually
slow. In debris avalanches, progressive failure is more
rapid, and the whole mass, either because it is quite wet
or because it is on a steep slope, liquefies, at least in part,
flows, and tumbles downward, commonly along a stream
channel, and may advance well beyond the foot of the
slope. Debris avalanches are generally long and narrow
and often leave a serrate or V-shaped scar tapering uphill
at the head, as shown in Figures 2.1q3 and 2.17, in con-
trast to the [Link] scarp of a slump.
Debris flows, called mud flows in some other classifi.
cations, are here distinguished from the latter on the basis
of particle size. That is, the term debris denotes material
that contains a relatively high percentage of coarse frag-
ments, whereas the term mud flow is reserved for an earth
flow consisting of material that is wet enough to flow rap.
idly and that contains at least 50 percent sand-, silt-, and
clay-sized particles. Debris flows commonly result from slope movements of snow or ice. Rapp (2.132) and Temple
unusually heavy precipitation or from thaw of snow or and Rapp (2.169), with considerable logic, recommend that,
frozen soil. The kind of flow shown in Figure 2.1ql often because the term debris avalanche is poorly defined, it should
occurs during torrential runoff following cloudbursts. It is be abandoned, and that the term avalanche should be used
favored by the presence of soil on steep mountain slopes only in connection with mass movements of snow, either
from which the vegetative cover has been removed by fire pure or mixed with other debris. The term debris avalanche,
or other means, but the absence of vegetation is not a pre- however, is fairly well entrenched and in common usage
requisite. Once in motion, a small stream of water heavily (Knapp, 2.86); hence, its appearance in the classification
laden with soil has transporting power that is dispropor- as a variety of very rapid to extremely rapid debris flow
tionate to its size, and, as more material is added to the seems justified.
stream by caving of its banks, its size and power increase. Recent studies have contributed much to a better un-
These flows commonly follow preexisting drainageways, derstanding of the rates and duration of rainfall that lead
and they are often of high density, perhaps 60 to 70 per. to the triggering of debris flows, the physical properties of
cent solids by weight, so that boulders as big as automo- the material in place, the effect of slope angle, the effect
biles may be rolled along. If such a flow starts on an un- of pore-water pressure, the mobilization of material and
broken hillside it will quickly cut a V-shaped channel. mechanism of movement, and the properties of the result-
Some of the coarser material will be heaped at the site to ing deposit. The reader is referred especially to the works
form a natural levee, while the more fluid part moves of Campbell (2.20), Daido (2.34), Fisher (2.46), Hutchin-
down the channel (Figure 2.17). Flows may extend many son (2.70), Hutchinson and Bhandari (2.72), Johnson and
kilometers, until they drop their loads in a valley of lower Rahn (2. 76), Jones (2.78), Prior, Stephens, and Douglas
gradient or at the base of a mountain front. Some debris (2.129), Rapp (2.131), K. M. Scott (2.141), R. C. Scott
flows and mud flows have been reported to proceed by a (2.142), and Williams and Guy (2.188). Flowing move-
series of pulses in their lower parts; these pulses presumably ments of surficial debris, including creep of the mantle of
are caused by periodic mobilization of material in the source weathered rock and soil, are shown in Figure 2.1q2, 2.1q4,
area or by periodic damming and release of debris in the and 2.1q5. Soil flow, or sohifluction, which in areas of pe-
lower channel. rennially or permanently frozen ground is better termed
The term avalanche, if unmodified, should refer only to gelifluction, takes many forms and involves a variety of

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mechanisms that can be treated adequately only in works Figure 2.19. Earth flow near Greensboro, Florida (2.80, 2.182).
Material is flat-lying, partly indurated clayey sand of the Hawthorn
devoted to this special field, which is of great significance
formation (Miocene). Length of slide is 275 m (900 ft) from scarp
to engineering works at high latitudes and altitudes. The to edge of trees in foreground. Vertical distance is about 15 m (45
reader is referred to summaries by Dylik (2.40), Washburn ft) from top to base of scarp and about 20 m (60 ft) from top of
(2.187), and Corte (2.27); the proceedings of the Interria- scarp to toe. Slide occurred in April 1948 after year of unusually
tional Conference on Permafrost (2.111); and recent work heavy rainfall, including 40cm (16 in) during 30 d preceding
sl ide.
by McRoberts and Morgenstern (2.104, 2.105) and Emble-
ton and King (2.42).
Subaerial flows in fine-grained materials such as sand,
.-
silt, or clay are classified here as earth flows. They take a ;sf:
variety of forms and range in water content from above
saturation to essentially dry and in velocity from extremely
rapid to extremely slow. Some examples are shown in Fig-
ure 2.1rl through 2.1r5. At the wet end of the scale are
mud flows, which are soupy end members of the family of
predominantly fine-grained earth flows, and subaqueous
flows or flows originating in saturated sand or silt along
_____
shores.
441.
In a recent paper reviewing Soviet work on mud flows,
Kurdin (2.91) recommended a classification of mud flows
based on (a) the nature of the water and solid-material
supply; (b) the structural-rheological model, that is, whether
the transporting medium is largely water in the free state
or is a single viscoplastic mass of water and fine particles;
(c) the composition of the mud flow mass, that is, whether Van Wamelon, and Weinberg, 2.89). When the structure of
it consists of mud made up of water and particles less than the loose sand breaks down along a section of the bank, the
1 mm (0.04 in) in size or of mud plus gravel, rubble, sand flows rapidly along the bottom, and, by repeated
boulders, and rock fragments; and (d) the force of the mud small failures, the slide eats into the bank and enlarges the
flow as defined by volume, rate of discharge, and observed cavity. Sometimes the scarp produced is an arc, concave
erosive and destructive power. In the Soviet literature mud toward the water, and sometimes it enlarges greatly, retain-
flows include not only what are here classified as debris ing a narrow neck or nozzle through which the sand flows.
flows but also heavily laden flows of water-transported An extensive discussion and classification of subaqueous
sediment. mass-transport processes and the resulting deposits have
According to Andresen and Bjerrum (2.3), subaqueous been presented by Carter (2.21).
flows are generally of two types: (a) retrogressive flow Rapid earth flows also occur in fine-grained silt, clay,
slide or (b) spontaneous liquefaction, as shown in Figure and clayey sand, as shown in Figures 2.1 r2 and 2.19 (2.80).
2.18. The retrogressive flows, as shown in Figure 2.1r1, These flows form a complete gradation with slides involving
occur mostly along banks of noncohesive clean sand or failure by lateral spreading, but they involve not only lique-
silt. They are especially common along tidal estuaries in faction of the subjacent material but also retrogressive fail-
the coastal provinces of Holland, where banks of sand are ure and liquefaction of the entire slide mass. They usually
subject to scour and to repeated fluctuations in pore-water take place in sensitive materials, that is, in those materials
pressure because of the rise and fall of the tide (Koppejan, whose shear strength on remolding at constant water con-
tent is decreased to a small fraction of its original value.
Rapid earth flows have caused loss of life and immense
Figure 2.18. Retrogressive flow slide and spontaneous destruction of property in Scandinavia, the St. Lawrence
liquefaction (2.3). River valley in Canada, and Alaska during the 1964 earth-
quake. The properties of the material involved, which is
(a) RETROGRESSIVE FLOW SLIDE
(Mechanism after Koppejan. Van Wamelon, and Weinberg. 2.891 usually a marine or estuarine clay of late Pleistocene age,
rAFTERFLOWSLIDE WATERLEVEL BEFORE FLOW SLIDE have been thoroughly studied by many investigators during
the last 15 years. Summary papers have been written by
Bjerrum and others (2.12) on flows in Norway and by
Mitchell and Markell (2.108),and Eden and Mitchell (2.41)
SCOURED OUT BY TIDAL CURRENT
on flows in Canada. Shoreline flows produced by the Alas-
LARGE STRAIN VELOCITIES 0.05 10 SE VERAL k,elh
[Link] earthquake at Valdez and Seward have been described
IbI SPONTANEOUS LIQUEFACTION
by Coulter and Migliaccio (2.28) and Lenike (2.98). The
- SECONDARY SLIDE SECO5DARY SLIDE large failure on the Reed Terrace near Kettle Falls, Wash-
AFTER
ington, shown in Figures 2.20 and 2.21 (2.79), resembles
in some respects the earth flow at Riviere Blanche, Quebec,
shown in Figure 2.1r2 (2.146).
LSTART
EARTHQUAKEIPILE DRIVING
The somewhat drier and slower earth flows in plastic
SMALL STRAIN VELOCITIES 10,0 100 Kmjh
earth are common in many parts of the world wherever
Nole: 1 km(h 0.6 rnpl,. there is a combination of clay or weathered clay-bearing

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rocks, moderate slopes, and adequate moisture; Figure 2.22 on falling from a cliff, have been recognized, but so far as
shows a typical example. A common elongation of the flow, is known none has been studied in detail (Figure 2.26).
channelization in depression in the slope, and spreading of Flows of bess mobilized by earthquake shock have been
the toe are illustrated in Figure 2.43 and also shown in an more destructive of life than any other type of slope failure.
actual debris flow in Figure 2.23. Those that followed the 1920 earthquake in Kansu Province,
The word flow naturally brings water to mind, and some China (Close and McCormick,2.23), shown in Figure 2.1r5,
content of water is necessary for most types of flow move- took about 100 000 lives. Apparently the normal, fairly
ment. But small dry flows of granular material are common, coherent internal structure of the porous silt was destroyed
and a surprising number of large and catastrophic flow by earthquake shock, so that, for all practical purposes, the
movements have occurred in quite dry materials. There- bess became a fluid suspension of silt in air and flowed
fore, the classification of flows indicates the complete down into the valleys, filling them and overwhelming vil-
range of water contentfrom liquid at the top to dry at lages. The flows were essentially dry, according to the re-
the bottom. Tongues of rocky debris on steep slopes moving port. Extensive flows of bess accompanied the Chait earth-
extremely slowly and often fed by talus cones at the head quake of July 10, 1949, in Tadzhikistan, south-central Asia,
are called block streams (Figure 2.lq5). Because of rain- and buried or destroyed 33 villages as the flows covered the
wash, a higher proportion of coarse rocks may be in the sur- bottoms of valleys to depths of several tens of meters for
face layers than in the interior. Dry flows of sand are com- many kilometers (Gubin, 2.54).
mon along shores or embankments underlain by dry gran-
ular material. In form, they may be cliannelized, as shown Complex
in Figures 2.1r4 and 2.24, or sheetlike, as shown in Figure
2.25 (2.79). Small flows of dry silt, powered by impact More often than not, slope movements involve a combina-

Figure 2.20. Reed Terrace area, right bank of Lake Roosevelt Figure 2.22. Earth flow developing from slump near Berkeley.
reservoir on Columbia River. near Kettle Falls, Washington, May California (2.182).
15, 1951 (2.182). Landslide of April 10. 1952, involving about
11 Mm3 (15 million yd3) took place by progressive slumping,
liquefaction, and flowing out of glaciofluvial sediments through
narrow orifice into bottom of reservoir.

-
- F--. / .. L'- ................
..-...-.:..........................-...
......... - -
A.

Figure 2.21. Reed Terrace area, Lake Roosevelt, Washington, Figure 2.23. Old debris flow in altered volcanic rocks west of
August 1, 1952, after landslide of April 10, 1952(2.79, 2.182). Pahsimeroi River in south central Idaho.

:cQ
7T' b!::I

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Figure 2.24. Dry sand flow in Columbia River valley (2i82). tion of one or more of the principal typesof movement de-
Material is sand over lake-bed si It; dry sand from upper terrace flowed scribed above, either within various parts of the moving
like liquid through notch in more compact sand and silt below.
mass or at different stages in development of the movements.
These are termed complex slope movements, and a few cx-
ainpies of the many possible types are illustrated in Figure
2Js1 through 2Js5.
Of particular interest regarding hazards of landslides to
life and property are large, extremely rapid rock fall-debris
flows, referred to as rock-fragment now (variety rock-fall
avalanche) in the 1958 classification (2.182). Rock slide-
and rock fall-debris flows are most common in rugged
mountainous regions. The disaster at Elm. Switzerland
(Heim, 2.58, pp. 84, 109-1 12), which took 115 lives,

4t
startetl with small rock slides at each side of a quarry on
the mountainside. A few minutes later the entire mass of
rock above the quarry crashed down and shot across the
1'
valley. The movement of the rock fragments, which had
to that moment been that of a rock slide and rock fall, ap-
pears to have taken on the character of a flow. The mass
- :i
rushed up the other side of the small valley, turned and
streamed into the main valley, and flowed for nearly I 5
. .- -s.. km (1 mile) at high velocity before stopping (Figure [Link]).
About 10 Mm3 (13 million yd3) of rock descended an aver-
age of 470 m (1540 ft) vertically in a total elapsed time of
x_ -.-'.-- .---.- . .-
-- about 55 s. The kinetic energy involved was enormous.
A similar and even larger rock-fall avalanche occurred at
Frank, Alberta, in 1903 and also caused great loss of life
and property (McConnell and Brock, 2103; Cruden and
Krahn. 2.33).
Figure 2.25. Shallow, dry, sand flow along shore of Lake
Roosevelt. Washington (2.79). Wave erosion or saturation of
These rock fall-debris flows are minor, however, com-
sediment by lake water caused thin skin of material to lose pared with the cataclysmic flow that occurred at the time
Jpport and ravel off terrace scarp. of the May 31, 1970, earthquake in Peru, which buried the
city of Yungay and part of Ranrahirca, causing a loss of
more than 18 000 lives. According to Plafker, Ericksen, and
Fernandez Concha (2J26), the movement started high on
Huascaran Mountain at an altitude of 5500 to 6400 ni and
- ..- involved 50 Mni3 to 100 Mm3 (65 million to 130 million
yd 3) of rock, ice, snow, and soil that traveled 14.5 km (9
A"c. miles) from the source to Yungay at a velocity between
280 and 335 km/h (175 to 210 mph). They reported strong
evidence that the extremely high velocity and low friction
of the flow were due, at least in part, to lubrication by a
cushion of air entrapped beneath the debris. Pautre,
Sabarly. and Schneider (2.122) suggested that the mass
Figure 2.26. Dry flow of silt (2.182). Material is lake-bed silt of may have ridden on a cushion of steam. A sketch of the
Pleistocene age from high bluff on right bank of Columbia River, 4
area affected is shown in Figure 2.27, taken from a paper
km (2.5 miles) downstream from Belvedere, Washington. Flow was
not observed while in motion, but is believed to result from blocks by duff (224) on engineering geology observations.
of silt falling down slope, disintegrating, forming a single high- Crandell and Fahnestock (229) cited evidence for an air
density solid-in-air suspension, and flowing out from base of cliff. cushion beneath one or more rock fall-debris flows that
occurred in December 1963 at Little Tahoma Peak and
Emmons Glacier on the east flank of Mt. Rainier volcano,
Washington.
Such flows probably cannot be produced by a few thou-
sand or a few hundred thousand cubic meters of material.
Many millions of megagrams are required: and, when that
much material is set in motion, perhaps even slowly, pre-
dictions of behavior based on past experience with small
failures become questionable. The mechanics of large,ex-
- tremely rapid debris flows, many of which appear to have
- .... been nearly dry when formed, have conic under much re-
...
- - -- 5- ;.

cent study. The large prehistoric Blackhawk landslide

- - .-
P -
. '.-i __,%- -
.- - - - -.- " --
(Figure 2.28) shows so little gross rearrangement 'within the

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sheet of debris of which it is composed that Shreve (2.148) or gas were available for fluidization.
believed the broken material was not fluidized but slid on Getting back to Earth, we note self-explanatory examples
an ephemeral layer of compressed air. He reported, simi- of complex movements in Figure 2-1: slump-topple in Fig-
larly, that the large landslide that was triggered by the Alaska ure 2.1s2, rock slide-rock fall in Figure 2.1s3, and the com-
earthquake of 1964 and fell onto the Sherman Glacier mon combination of a slump that breaks down into an earth
showed little large-scale mixing and did not flow like a flow in its lower part in Figure 2.1s5.
viscous fluid but instead slid like a flexible sheet (Shreve, The illustration of cambering and valley bulging in Figure
2.149). On the other. hand, Johnson and Ragle (2.77) re- 2.1s4 is adapted from the classical paper by Hollingworth
ported, and Taylor (2.65) on the Northampton Sand Ironstone in
England, their earlier paper on the Kettering district (2.64),
Many rock-snow slides that followed from the Alaska earth- and a sketch supplied by J. N. Hutchinson. The complex
quake of March 27, 1964, illustrated a variety of flow me- movements were described by Hutchinson (2.68) as follows:
chanics. The form of some slides suggests a complete turbu-
lence during flow, while the form of others gives evidence Cambering and Valley Bulging. These related features were
for steady-state flow or for controlled shearing. first clearly recognized in 1944 by Hollingworth, Taylor,
and Kellaway (see reference in Terzaghi, 1950) in the North-
From a detailed analysis of the kinematics of natural rock ampton Ironstone field of central England, where they are
fall-debris flows and from model studies, Hs (2.66) disputed believed to have a Late Pleistocene origin. The ironstone oc-
Shreve's hypothesis that some slid as relatively undeformed curs in the near-horizontal and relatively thin Northampton
sheets on compressed air and concluded, rather, that they Sands, which are the uppermost solid rocks in the neighbor-
flowed. hood. These are underlain, conformably, by a great thick-
Obviously, there is much yet to be learned about these ness of the Lias, into which shallow valleys, typically 1200
processes, particularly as similar features indicating mass to 1500 meters wide and 45 meters deep, have been eroded.
movements of huge size have been recognized in Mariner 9 Excavations for dam trenches in the valley bottoms have
photographs of the surface of Mars (Sharp, 2.145), where shown the Lias there to be thrust strongly upward and con-
it is yet uncertain that significant amounts of either liquid torted, while open cast workings in the Northampton Sands

Figure 2.27. Area affected by May 31, 1970, Huascarn debris avalanche, which originated at point A (2.24).
Vungay was protected from January 10, 1962, debris avalanche by 180 to 240-rn (600 to 800-ft) high ridge
(point B), but a portion of May 31, 1970, debris avalanche diverted from south side of canyon wall, topped
"protective" ridge, and descended on Vungay below. Only safe place in Yungay was Cemetery Hill (point C),
where some 93 people managed to run to before debris avalanche devastated surrounding area. Moving at
average speed of 320 km (200 mph), debris arrived at point D, 14.5 km (9 miles) distant and 3660 m (12 000
ft) lower, within 3 to 4 min after starting from north peak of Huascarn. Debris flowed upstream along course
of Rio Santa (point E) approximately 2.5 km 0.5 miles). Debris continued to follow course of Rio Santa
downstream to Pacific Ocean. approximately 160 km (100 miles), devastating villages and crops occupying
floodplain.

NEVADO HUANDOY NEVADO HUASCARAN

NORTH PEAK SOUTH PEAK
_6663m 6767m

Area apparently overridden

by avalanche debris but left
undisturbed, suggesting air-
cushioning effect

Note: 1 m = 3.3 ft.

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occupying the inter/luves reveal a general valleyward in- Figure 2.28. Blackhawk landslide (2.147). Upslope view,
crease of dip of "camber" of this stratum, often passing southward over lobe of dark marble breccia spread beyond mouth
of Blackhawk Canyon on north flank of San Bernardino Mountains
into dip and fault structure, suggesting corresponding in southern California. Maximum width of lobe is 3.2 km 12 miles);
downward movements along the valley margins. In adjust- height of scarp at near edge is about 15 m 150 ft).
ing to these movements, the rigid cap-rock has been dislo-
cated by successive, regularly spaced fissures which paral-
lel the valley and are known as "gulls." Similar features
have been recognized in other parts of England and in Bo-
hemia. The mechanisms by which cambering and valley
bulging have been formed remain to be established.
. '-.
Hutchinson (2. 70) also pointed out that Sharpe's defi-
nition of flow (2i46), which requires zero relative dis-
placement at the boundary of the flow (flow adheres to
the stable material), does not fit the observed distribution
of velocities at Beltinge, where a mud flow developed in a
temperate climate on a 30-m-high (98-ft) coastal cliff of ' -
stiff, fissured London clay subject to moderate marine ero- I'
sion. 1-lere the mud flow was bounded both oil the sides
and on the bottom by discrete surfaces along which shear
displacements occurred. For these kinds of movements
Hutchinson and Bhandari (2. 72) proposed the term mtid-
slides. These can be regarded as complex movements in p.
I &'
which the internal distribution of velocities within the
moving mass may or may not resemble that of viscous
fluids, but the movement relative to stable ground is finite Figure 2.29. Main types (S) SINGLE - - -
discontinuous shear. It would seem that the material of the of rotational slide -.
a Slope failure
(2.68).
sliding earth flow is behaving as a plastic body in plug flow, Cloy

as suggested by Hutchinson (2.69, pp. 23 1-232) and as ana-

lyzed in detail by Johnson (2. 75). Bose failure
Cloy

Sequence or Repetition of Movement Ibi MULTIPLE Cap rock

--------------

The term retrogressive has been used almost consistently for

slides or flow failures that begin at a local area, usually along Clay

a slope, and enlarge or retreat opposite to the direction of

Hard substratum
movement of the material by spreading of the failure sur-
face, successive rotational slumps, falls, or liquefaction of Ccl SUCCESSIVE
the material. Kojan, Foggin, and Rice (2.87, pp. 127-128)
used the term for failure spreading downslope.
On the other hand, the term progressive has been used
to indicate extension of the failure (a) downslope (Blong,
2.13; Kjellman,2.84: Ter-Stepanian .2.1 70, 2.1 71: Thomson
and l-layley,2.177),(b) upslope (but not specifically up-
slope only) (Seed, 2.143; Tavenas, Chagnon, and La Rochelle,
2.168), and (c) either upsiope or downslope, or unspecified
(Terzaghi and Peck, 2.176: Bishop, 2.7; Roniani, Lovell, Archer (2.128) to describe sliding mud flows.
and Harr, 2.135; Lo, 2.100; Frlich, 2.51; Ter-Stepanian Compound refers to movements in which "the failure
and Goldstein. 2.173, and many others). surface is formed of a combination of curved and planar ele-
I suggest that the term progressive be used for failure ments and the slide movements have a part-rotational, part-
that is either advancing or retreating or both simultaneously, translational character" (Skempton and Hutchinson, 2.154).
that the term retrogressive be used only for retreating fail- Multiple refers to manifold development of the same
ures, and that failures that enlarge in the direction of move- mode of movement. As applied to retrogressive rotational
ment be referred to simply as advancing failures. sliding, the term refers to the production of "two or more
The terms complex, composite, compound, multiple, slipped blocks, each with a curved slip surface tangential to
and successive have been used in different ways by various a common, generally deep-seated slip sole [Figure 2.291
authors. I suggest the following definitions. Clearly, as the number of units increases, the overall char-
acter of the slip becomes more translational, though in fail-
1. Complex refers to slope movements that exhibit more ing, each block itself rotates backwards" (Hutchinson.
than one of the major modes of movement. This is the sense 2.68). Leighton (2.97) distinguished two types of multiple
of the meaning suggested by Blong (2.14). The term is syn- slide blocks: superposed, in which each slide block rides
onymous with composite, as used by Prior, Stephens, and out on the one below, and juxtaposed, in which adjacent

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moving units have a common basal surface of rupture, as Figure 2.30. Two types of multiple slide blocks (2.97).
shown in Figure 2.30.
(a) SUPERPOSED SLIDE BLOCKS
4. Successive refers to any type of multiple movements
that develop successively in time. According to Skempton
and Hutchinson (2.154), "Successive rotational slips con-
sist of an assembly of individual shallow rotational slips.
The rather sparse data available suggest that successive
- - ------ 50 m
slips generally spread up a slope from its foot." Hutchin- IOLC.

son (2.67) states,

)b) JUXTAPOSED SLIDE BLOCKS Shear ke5
Odd lot prof to
Fill blanket
Below a slope inclination of about 130 [m London Clay], Origifloltroand J I
rotational slips of type R are replaced by successive rota- surface ,,_.-
Battresses
tional slips (typeS). These probably develop by retrogres-
sion from a type R slip in the lower slope. Each component
slip is usually of considerable lateral extent, forming a step
across the slope. Irregular successive slips, which form a
-- -
----
mosaic rather than a stepped pattern in plan are also found.

Figure 2.31 (2.67) shows the main types of landslides in Figure 2.31. Main types of,landslides in London clay (2.67).
London clay.
Landslides that develop one on top of another are called
multistoried by Ter-Stepanian and Goldstein (2.173). Fig-
DIAGRAMMATIC CROSS SECTION
All slip eurfaces are inferred and shown by broken line TYPE -
ure 2.32 shows their illustration of a three-storied landslide Ion and bank failures
Shallow
in Sochi on the coast of the Black Sea. rotational
slips

Rate of Movement
...i............... ar:,_,
The rate-of-movement scale used in this chapter is shown at I rotational slips
the bottom of the classification chart in Figure 2.1u. Metric _aco9roY nknoken .o...._.
and
equivalents to the rate scale shown in the 1958 classifica-
Undulations or
tion have been derived by Yemel'ianova (2.190), and these
should now be regarded as the primary definitions.

TERMS RELATING TO MATERIAL

Is rotational slips
Principal Divisions Overr id i.n:g at toe

The following four terms have been adopted as descriptions

of material involved in slope movements.

Bedrock designates hard or firm rock that was intact

and in its natural place before the initiation of movement. movement on the basis of a limited amount of informa-
Engineering soil includes any loose, unconsolidated, tioii.
or poorly cemented aggregate of solid particles, generally
of natural mineral, rock, or inorganic composition and Water Content
either transported or residual, together with any interstitial
gas or liquid. Engineering soil is divided into debris and By modifying the suggestions of Radbruch-Hall (2.130),
earth. we may define terms relating to water content simply as
Debris refers to an engineering soil, generally surficial, (a) dry, contains no visible moisture; (b) moist, contains
that contains a significant proportion of coarse material. some water but no free water and may behave as a plastic
According to Shroder (2.150), debris is used to specify ma- solid but not as a liquid; (c) wet, contains enough water to
terial in which 20 to 80 percent of the fragments are greater behave in part as a liquid, has water flowing from it, or sup-
than 2 mm (0.08 in) in size and the remainder of the frag- ports significant bodies of standing water; and (d) very wet,
ments less than 2 mm. contains enough water to flow as a liquid under low gra-
Earth (again according to Shroder) connotes material clients,
in which about 80 percent or more of the fragments are
smaller than 2 mm; it includes a range of materials from Texture, Structure, and Special
nonplastic sand to highly plastic clay. Properties
This division of material that is completely gradational As amounts of information increase, more definite designa-
is admittedly crude; however, it is intended mainly to en- tion can be made about slope movements. For example, a
able a name to be applied to material involved in a slope bedrock slump may be redesignated as a slump in sandstone

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Figure 2.32. Three-storied landslide in is adequate to describe almost any feature of a slump earth
Sochi on coast of Black Sea, USSR now. In addition. Skempton and Hutchinson (2J54) used
(2.173). Boundaries of three Stories the ratio of D/L, where D is the maximum thickness of the
of sliding are shown in section and
plan by three types of lines.
slide and L is the maxiniurn length of the slide upslope.
From Skempton's figures showing original use of this ratio
4 ELOCKS OF ARGILLITE AND SANDSTONE (2.152), it seetns probable that the intended length is that
5 CRUSHED AIDjILLITE
6 SLOW EARTH FLOW IN COLLUVIUM of a chord of the rupture surface (La ), rather than the total
length (L), as shown in Figure 2.1 t. Skempton and Hutchin-
son gave a range of D/LC values of 0.15 to 0.33 for rota-
tional slides in clay and shale, and they stated that slab slides,
which commonly occur in a mantle of weathered or colluvial
material on clayey slopes, rarely if ever have D/L, ratios
greater than 0.1 - Figure 2.33 illustrates such a shallow slab
slide. In a statistical study of the forms of landslides along
the Columbia River valley, Jones, Embody, and Peterson
(2. 79) made extensive use of the horizontal component
(I-IC) or distance from the foot Of the landslide to the
32811 crown, measured in a longitudinal section of the landslide,
and the vertical component (VC) or difference in altitude
between the foot and crown, measured in the same section.
Figure 2.33. Shallow translational slide that developed on shaly
slope in Puente Hills of southern California (2.147). Slide has low
TERMS RELATING TO GEOLOGIC,
D/L ratio (note wrinkles in surface).
GEOMORPHIC. GEOGRAPHIC, OR
CLIMATIC SETTING

The classification of landslides proposed by Savarensky

(2.140) and followed to some degree in eastern Europe
makes the primary division of types on the basis of the re-
lation of slope movements to the geologic structure of the
materials iiivolved. Accordingly, asequent slides are those
in which the surface of rupture forms in homogeneous ma-
terial: consequent slides are those in which the position and
geometry of the surface of rupture are controlled by preex-
isting cliscontinuities such as bedding, jointing, or contact
between weathered and fresh rock: and insequent slides are
those in which the surface of rupture cuts across bedding
or other surfaces of inhomogeneity. The Japanese have
used a classification of landslides separated into (a) tertiary
type, involving incompetent tertiary sedimentary strata
(Takada, 2.167); (b) hot-spring-volcanic type, which is in
highly altered rocks: and (c) fracture-zone type, which oc-
over stiff-fissured clay shale, or an earth slide may be given curs in fault zones and highly broken metamorphic rocks.
more precise definition as a block slide in moist sensitive Sharpe (2i46. pp. 57-61) distinguished three types of mud
clay. flows: semiarid, alpine, and volcanic, to which 1-lutchinson
(2.68) has added a fourth variety, temperate.
TERMS RELATING TO SIZE Types of landslides are sometimes identified by the geo-
OR GEOMETRY graphic location at which the type is particularly well de-
veloped. For exaniple. Sokolov (2.159) refers to block
A rather large body of descriptive terms has been built up slides of the Angara type (similar to that shown in Figure
relating to the size, shape, and morphology of slope move- 2.1 m2), of the Tyub-Karagan type (similar to that shown
nients and their deposits. Some of these have already been in Figure 2.1 iii3), and of the Ilini and Crimean types, all
mentioned, such as the relation of rotational slides to named after localities. Reiche (2.133) applied the term
curved surfaces of rupture and translational slides to planar Torcva-block (from the village of Toreva on the 1-lopi Indian
surfaces of rupture. The close association between the mor- Reservation in Arizona) to "a landslide consisting essentially
phology of a slope movement and its dominant genetic pro- of a single large mass of unjostled material which, during
cess, which is evident in a qualitative way from the forego- descent, has undergone backward rotation toward the parent
ing text and illustrations, has been tested quantitatively cliff about a horizontal axis which roughly parallels it"
through the use of refined measures of the parts and geo- (Figure 2.1 g). Shreve (2.149), in summarizing data on land-
metric attributes of landslides by Crozier (232) and by slides that slid on a cushion of compressed air, referred to
Blong (2.14, 2.15). These authors, together with Snopko these landslides as being of the Blackhawk type, from the
(2.157). Klengel and Paek (2,85), Shroder (2.150), and rock fall-debris slide-debris flow at Blackhawk Mountain in
Laverdire (294), have made available a terminology that southern California (2.148). Although the use of locality

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terms may occasionally be a convenience, it is not recom- ever, landslides take place under the influence of geologic,
mended as a general practice, for the terms themselves are topographic, or climatic factors that are common to large
not informative to a reader who lacks knowledge of the areas. The causes must then be understood if other similar
locality. slides are to be avoided or controlled.
Seldom, if ever, can a landslide [Link] to a single
TERMS RELATING TO AGE OR definite cause. As clearly shown by Zolotarev (2.196), the
STATE OF ACTIVITY process leading to the development of the slide has its be-
ginning with the formation of the rock itself, when its basic
Active slopes are those that are either currently moving or physical properties are determined, and includes all the sub-
that are suspended, the latter term implying that they are sequent events of crustal movements, erosion, and weather-
not moving at the present time but have moved within the ing. Finally, some action, perhaps trivial, sets a mass of
last cycle of seasons. Active slides are commonly fresh; material in motion downhill. The last action cannot be re-
that is, their morphological features, such as scarps and garded as the only cause, even though it was necessary in
ridges, are easily recognizable as being due to gravitational the chain of events. As Sowers and Sowers(2.161, p.506)
movement, and they have not been significantly modified point out,
by surficial processes of weathering and erosion. However,
in and regions, slides may retain a fresh appearance for In most cases a number of causes exist simultaneously and
many years. so attempting to decide which one finally produced failure
Inactive slopes are those for which there is no evidence is not only difficult but also incorrect. Often the final fac-
that movement has taken place within the last cycle of sea- tor is nothing more than a trigger that set in motion an
sons. They may be dormant, in which the causes of failure earth mass that was already on the verge of failure. Calling
remain and movement may be renewed, or they may be sta the final factor the cause is like calling the match that lit
bilized, in which factors essential to movement have been the fuse that detonated the dynamite that destroyed the
removed naturally or by human activity. Slopes that have building the cause of the disaster.
long-inactive movement are generally modified by erosion
and weathering or may be covered with vegetation so that In this connection, however, the determination of all the
the evidence of the last movement is obscure. They are of- geologic causes of a landslide should not be confused with
ten referred to as fossil (Zruba and Mend, 2.193; Klengel determination of legal responsibility. The interrelations of
and Paek, 2.85; Nossin, 2.118) or ancient (Popov, 2.127) landslide causes are lucidly and graphically presented by
landslides in that they commonly have developed under dif Terzaghi (2.175). His work, that of Sharpe (2i46), Ladd
ferent geomorphological and climatic conditions thousands (2.92), and Bendel (2.6), and that of more recent researchers,
or more years ago and cannot repeat themselves at present. such as Ziruba and Mend (2.193), Skempton and Hutchin-
son (2.154), Krinitzsky and Kolb (2.90), Rapp (2.131),and
FORMING NAMES Legget (2.96) were used in the preparation of this section.
All slides involve the failure of earth materials under
The names applied to slope movements can be made pro- shear stress. The initiation of the process can therefore be
gressively more informative, as more data are obtained,by reviewed according to (a) the factors that contribute to in-
building up a designation from several descriptor words, creased shear stress and (h) the factors that contribute to
each of which has a defined meaning. For example,a slow, low or reduced shear strength. Although a single action,
moist, translational debris slab slide means material moving such as addition of water to a slope, may contribute to
along a planar surface of a little-disturbed mass of frag- both an increase in stress and a decrease in strength, it is
mented material having a D/LC ratio of 0.1 or less, contain- helpful to separate the various physical results of such an
ing some water but none free, and moving at a rate between action. The principal factors contributing to the sliding
1.5 rn/month and 1.5 rn/year (5 ft/month or year). Once of slope-forming materials are outlined in the following
all these particulars are established in the description, the discussion. The operation of many factors is self-evident
movement could be referred to thereafter simply as a de- and needs no lengthy description; some factors are only
bris slide. discussed briefly, or reference is made to literature that
gives examples or treats the subject in detail.
CAUSES OF SLIDING SLOPE
MOVEMENTS Factors That Contribute to
Increased Shear Stress
The processes involved in slides, as well as in other slope
movements, comprise a continuous series of events from Removal of Lateral Support
cause to effect. An engineer faced with a landslide is pri-
marily interested in preventing the harmful effects of the The removal of lateral support is the commonest of all fac-
slide. In many instances the principal cause of the slide tors leading to instability, and it includes the following ac-
cannot be removed, so it may be more economical to alle- tions:
viate the effects continually or intermittently without at-
tempting to remove the cause. Some slides occur in a unique 1. Erosion by (a) streams and rivers, which produce
environment and may last only a few seconds. The damage most natural slopes that are subject to sliding (Hutchinson,
can be repaired, and the cause may be of only academic in- 2.67; Jones, Embody, and Peterson, 2.79; Eyles, 2.43;
terest unless legal actions are to be taken. More often, how- Fleming, Spencer, and Banks, 2.48; California Division of

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Highways, 2.19), (b) glaciers, which have deeply cut Removal of Underlying Support
and oversteepened many valleys in mountainous regions
that have been the sites of large slides and debris flows Examples of removal of underlying support include
(Plafker, Ericksen, and Fernandez Concha, 2.126), (c)
waves and longshore or tidal currents (Wood ,2.189; Ward, - Undercutting of banks by rivers (California Division
2.186; Hutchinson, 2.71; Koppejan, Van Wamelon, and of Highways, 2.19) and by waves;
Weinberg, 2.89), and (d) subaerial weathering, wetting and Subaerial weathering, wetting and drying, and frost
drying, and frost action; action;
Previous rock fall, slide (Kenney and Drury, 2.81), Subterranean erosion in which soluble material, such
subsidence, or large-scale faulting that create new slopes; as carbonates, salt, or gypsum is removed and granular ma-
and terial beneath firmer material is worked out (Ward, 2.186;
Work of human agencies in which (a) cuts, quarries, Terzaghi, 2.1 74);
pits, and canals (Van Rensburg, 2.181; Piteau, 2.124; Mining and similar actions by human agencies;
Patton, 2J21; Cording, 2.26) are established, (b) retaining Loss of strength or failure in underlying material; and
walls and sheet piling are removed, and (c) lakes and reser- [Link] out of underlying plastic material (Zruba
voirs are created and their levels altered (Muller, 2.112; and Mend, 2.193, pp. 68-78).
Jones, Embody, and Peterson, 2.79; Lane, 2.93; Dupree
and Taucher, 2.39). Lateral Pressure

Surcharge Lateral pressure may be caused by

Surcharge also results from both natural and human agen- Water in cracks and caverns,
cies. The surcharge from natural agencies may be Freezing of water in cracks,
Swelling as a result of hydration of clay or anhydrite,
Weight of rain, hail, snow, and water from springs; and
Accumulation of talus overriding landslide materials; Mobilization of residual stress (Bjerrum, 2.9; Krinitzsky
Collapse of accumulated volcanic material, producing and Kolb, 2.90).
avalanches and debris flows (Francis and others, 2.50);
Vegetation (Gray, 2.53; Pain, 2.120); and Volcanic Processes
Seepage pressures of percolating water.
Stress patterns in volcanic [Link] crater walls are mod-
The surcharge from human agencies may be ified by general dilation due to inflation or deflation of
magma chambers, fluctuation in lava-lake levels, and in-
Construction of fill; crease in harmonic tremors (Tilling, Koyanagi, and Holcomb,
Stockpiles of ore or rock; 2.178; Moore and Krivoy, 2.109; Fiske and Jackson, 2.47).
Waste piles (Bishop, 2.8; Davies, 2.35; Smalley, 2.156); Factors That Contribute to Low or
Weight of buildings and other structures and trains; Reduced Shear Strength
and
Weight of water from leaking pipelines, sewers, The factors that contribute to low or reduced shear strength
canals, and reservoirs. of rock or soil may be divided into two groups. The first
group includes factors stemming from the initial state or in-
Transitory Earth Stresses herent characteristics of the material. They are part of the
geologic setting that may be favorable to landslides, exhibit
Earthquakes have triggered a great many landslides, both little or no change during the useful life of a structure, and
small and extremely large and disastrous. Their action is may exist for a long period of time without failure. The
complex, involving both an increase in shear stress (hori- second group includes the changing or variable factors that
zontal accelerations may greatly modify the state of stress tend to lower the shear strength of the material.
within slope-forming materials) and, in some instances, a
decrease in shear strength (Seed, 2.143; Morton, 2.110; Initial State
Solonenko, 2.160; Lawson, 2.95; Hansen, 2.57; Newmark,
2.117; Simonett, 2.151; Hadley, 2.55; Gubin, 2.54). Vi- Factors in the initial state of the material that cause low
brations from blasting, machinery, traffic, thunder, and ad- shear strength are composition, texture, and gross structure
jacent slope failures also produce transitory earth stresses. and slope geometry.

Composition
Regional Tilting
Materials are inherently weak or may become weak upon
A progressive increase in the slope angle through regional change in water content or other changes. 'Included espe-
tilting is suspected as contributing to some landslides cially are organic materials, sedimentary clays and shales,
(Terzaghi,2.175). The slope must obviously be on the decomposed rocks, rocks of volcanic tuff that may weather
point of failure for such a small and slow-acting change to to clayey material, and materials composed dominantly of
be effective. soft platy minerals, such as mica, schist, talc, or serpentine.
Texture pressure and friction. Intergranular pressure due to capillary
tension in moist soil is destroyed upon saturation. Simple
The texture is a loose structure of individual particles in softening due to water and suffusion and slaking are dis-
sensitive materials, such as clays, marl, bess, sands of low cussed by Mamulea (2.101).
density, and porous organic matter (Aitchison, 2.2; Bjerrum Changes can occur because of natural actions, such as
and Kenney, 2.11 ; Cabrera and Smalley, 2.17). Roundness rainfall and snowmelt, and because of a host of human ac-
of grain influences strength as compressibility and internal tivities, such as diversion of streams, blockage of drainage,
friction increase with angularity. irrigation and ponding, and clearing of vegetation and de-
forestation. -
Gross Structure and Slope Geometry Crozier (2.30, 2.31), Shroder (2.150), and Spurek (2.163)
discuss the general effect of climate; Temple and Rapp
Included in gross structure and slope geometry are (2.169) Williams and Guy (2.188), Jones (2.78), and So
(2.158), catastrophic rainfall; Conway (2.25), Denness
Discontinuities, such as faults, bedding planes, folia- (2.38), and Piteau (2.124), effect of groundwater; Gray
tion in schist, cleavage, joints, slickensides, and brecciated (2.53), Bailey (2.4), Cleveland (2.22), Rice, Corbett, and
zones (Skempton and Petley, 2.155; Fookes and Wilson, Bailey (2.134), and Swanston (2.165), deforestation; Peck
2.49; Komarnitskii, 2.88; St. John, Sowers, and Weaver, (2.123) and Hirao and Okubo (2.60), correlation of rainfall
2.138; Van Rensburg, 2.181; Jennings and Robertson, and movement;and Shreve (2.148), Voight (2.185), Kent
2.74; Bjerrum and J$rstad, 2.10); (2.82), and Goguel and Pachoud (2.52), gaseous entrain-
Massive beds over weak or plastic materials (Zruba ment or cushion.
and Mend, 2.193; Nemok, 2.113);
Strata inclined toward free face; Changes in Structure
Alternation of permeable beds, such as sand or sand-
stone, and weak impermeable beds, such as clay or shale Changes in structure may be caused by fissuring of shales
(Henkel, 2.59); and and preconsolidated clays and fracturing and loosening of
Slope orientation (Rice, Corbett, and Bailey, 2.134; rock slopes due to release of vertical or lateral restraints in
Shroder, 2.150). valley walls or cuts (Bjerrum, 2.9; Aisenstein, 2.1; Ferguson,
2.45; Matheson and Thomson, 2.102; Mend, 2.106). Dis-
Changes Due to Weathering and Other turbance or remolding can affect the shear strength of ma-
Physicochemical Reactions terials composed of fine particles, such as bess, dry or sat-
urated loose sand, and sensitive clays (Gubin, 2.54; Youd,
The following changes can occur because of weathering and 2.191; Smalley, 2.156; Mitchell and Markell, 2.108).
other physicochemical reactions:
Miscellaneous Causes
Softening of fissured clays (Skempton,2.153; Sangrey
and Paul, 2.139; Eden and Mitchell, 2.41); Other causes of low shear strength are (a) weakening due
Physical disintegration of granular rocks, such as to progressive creep (Suklje, 2.164; Ter-Stepanian, 2.172;
granite or sandstone, under action of frost or by thermal Trollope,2.180; Piteau,2.124) and actions of tree roots
expansion (Rapp, 2.131); (Feld, 2.44) and burrowing animals.
Hydration of clay minerals in which (a) water is ab.
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