A Landslide Risk Management Approach for the Stillwater to Ngakawau Rail Corridor (SNL96 to 126km) in the Lower Buller Gorge, New Zealand

• Main Author: Franklin, Kristel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Canterbury. Geologocial Sciences 2012
• Subjects: Landslides; landslide susceptibility; landslide risk managment; landslide inventory; geology; Lower Buller Gorge; rail corridor; Greenland; New Zealand; Murchison; Corridor The; Corridor, The; Westport; Kuha
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26021/8546; https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/6573

This thesis has examined the 30km long rail corridor through the Lower Buller Gorge, on the Stillwater Ngakawau Line, between SNL96 and 126km, using a landslide risk management approach. The project area is characterised by high annual rainfall (>2,000mm per year), and steep topography (slopes ty...