Landslide morphology and its insight into the timing and causes of slope failure: case study of post-glacial landslides in Yellowstone National Park

• Main Author: Nicholas, Grace Ellen
• Other Authors: Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Jean Dixon
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science 2018
• Subjects: Landslides; Slopes (Soil mechanics); Geomorphology; Glaciers; Ice; Thawing; Risk; Gardiner River; Ice cap; permafrost
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/14612

Landslides are ubiquitous to post-glacial landscapes worldwide. Withdrawal of glacier ice exposes over-steepened landscapes that may be unstable, and consequently susceptible to landsliding. Glacial debuttressing may directly destabilize slopes; however, seismicity and transitions to interglacial cl...