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Yigong rock avalanche-flow landslide event, Tibet, China
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Yue, Z. Q. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Description | This chapter describes a large rock avalanche and flow landslide in detail, which happened in Yigong, Tibet, China on April 9, 2000. It provides a brief discussion on the mechanism of the large complex landslide to raise the research interests of the scholars both at home and abroad. A remarkable catastrophic rock avalanche-flow landslide occurred at 19:59 on April 9, 2000, in Zhamulong gully of Yigong area, Bomi county, Tibet, China. The rock avalanche-flow landslide is that it destroyed totally 8 km2 forest. Yingong tea plantation was flooded. About 4000 people were affected by the disaster. After the landslide, a man-made channel was dug on the natural dam in order to drain the water off from the barrier lake. The rock avalnache-flow landslide is located in the Yigong area, the northen part of Tibet. The flow landslide section has an elevation of 3700 m at on the crown and an elevation of 2800 m at the toe. Book Name: Landslides and Engineered Slopes. From the Past to the Future, Two Volumes + CD-ROM |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2009-1-15712-X&isbn=9780429207242&doi=10.1201/9780203885284-241&format=pdf |
| Ending Page | 1724 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| Starting Page | 1719 |
| DOI | 10.1201/9780203885284-241 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2008-06-11 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Landslides and Engineered Slopes. From the Past to the Future, Two Volumes + CD-ROM Geological Engineering Flow Landslide Rock Avalanche Flow |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
