A highway cut failure in Cretaceous sediments at Maymont, Saskatchewan

1979 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Krahn ◽  
R. F. Johnson ◽  
D. G. Fredlund ◽  
A. W. Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Slip Surface ◽  
Crossing Over ◽  
Glacial Ice ◽  
The North ◽  
Shearing Resistance ◽  
Engineering Significance ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Shear Box ◽  
Judith River Formation

In 1973 the Saskatchewan Department of Highways began construction of a crossing over the North Saskatchewan River at Maymont, Saskatchewan. The south approach to the river required a cut some 20 m in depth at the top edge of the valley and when the excavation reached the design elevation a massive failure occurred on one of the backslopes. The major portion of the slip surface followed a slickensided clay shale zone. An analysis of the failure indicates residual angles of shearing resistance were being mobilized. The reason for mobilizing only the residual strength is attributed to previous shearing arising from glacial ice-thrusting.The sliding occurred entirely within the sediments of the nonmarine Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation, but the strengths mobilized were essentially the same as those mobilized by slides in the marine Upper Cretaceous Bearpaw and Lea Park Formations. Negative water pressures arising from the stress change due to excavating did not appear to influence the stability. Direct shear box tests on natural slickensided surfaces gave strengths higher than required for a safety factor of unity. The testing of precut surfaces gave results that seem to correlate more closely with the field residual strengths. Furthermore, the Maymont case history clearly illustrates the need for identifying geological details and demonstrates the engineering significance of glacial ice-thrusting.

The Denholm landslide, Saskatchewan. Part I: Geology

1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Shear Zone ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Surface Expression ◽  
Recent Time ◽  
Displacement Rate ◽  
The North ◽  
Colorado Group ◽  
Judith River Formation

The Denholm landslide, whose surface is composed of scarps, ridges, and elongated depressions, is 160 m high, 2000 m wide, and up to 100 m thick. The shear zone is in silty, montomorillonitic clay of the upper part of the Lea Park Formation and Upper Colorado Group unit. The Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation and the Quaternary Empress, Sutherland, and Saskatoon groups were affected by the landslide. Although these sediments were fractured and gravity faulted by tension when the landslide moved, they can be readily traced through the landslide, particularly the upper part. The scarps (gravity faults), ridges (horsts), and elongated depressions (grabens) are the surface expression of tension resulting from the stretching of beds during the landslide.The movement of the landslide is thought to have started when the North Saskatchewan spillway eroded to the level of the present shear zone about 11 000 years ago (established by radiocarbon dating) and is believed to have stopped in recent time. During this time, it moved about 390 m across the North Saskatchewan River alluvium at an average rate of 35 mm per year. As the landslide moved across the valley, it encountered deposition of alluvium at an average rate of about 2.4 mm per year which resulted in the curved shear zone on the alluvium. Keywords: retrogressive landslide, shale-alluvium, displacement, rate, age.

Numerical Analysis of a Slope Stabilized with Anchors

2012 ◽  
Vol 479-481 ◽  
pp. 841-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Wei Sun ◽  
Jia Chen Wang ◽  
Zhong Ping Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Reduction Method ◽  
Slip Surface ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Strength Reduction ◽  
Strength Reduction Method ◽  
Interface Elements ◽  
Shearing Resistance ◽  
Shear Strength Reduction Method ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Shear Strength Reduction

The three-dimensional shear strength reduction method is used to evaluate the stability of an idealized slope stabilized with anchors, where the soil-anchor interaction is simulated by zero-thickness three-dimensional interface elements, and the effects of the direction angle, position, spacing on the slope stability are numerical studied. The results show that the reinforcing mechanisms of anchors in slopes are to increase the shearing resistance on the slip surface，and the failure mechanism, predicted by SSR, agrees well with the critical slip circle given by Bishop’s simplified method. The better stabilizing effects can be obtained when the anchors are installed with a small angle between the anchor and the horizontal direction, and slightly closer to the slope toe.

The Edgerton Landslide

1978 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 510-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Thomson ◽  
R. W. Tweedie
Keyword(s):  
Slip Surface ◽  
Failure Surface ◽  
Strength Loss ◽  
Soil Parameters ◽  
The North ◽  
Slide Mass ◽  
Clay Shales ◽  
Field Evidence ◽  
Shearing Resistance ◽  
Gradual Loss

In September 1974 a large landslide occurred about 48 km northeast of Wainwright, Alberta. This failure presented features of interest but preslide conditions could not be reliably determined. Immediately south of this landslide a scarp some 150 m long and 0.6 m high had formed, probably contemporaneously with the failure. Field inspection suggested that this incipient failure was a sufficiently independent feature to merit detailed investigation. The major failure was termed the North Slide and the incipient failure was termed the South Slide. Collectively these slides make up the Edgerton Landslide.The failure occurred largely in flat lying, poorly indurated interbedded sandstones, siltstones, and clay shales of late Upper Cretaceous age which are overlain in the upland areas by a thin veneer of till of Wisconsin age. In the vicinity of the landslides there are many old slump areas much subdued by erosion. Field evidence indicated that the lower part of the recent failure surface had reactivated an old failure surface, whereas the scarp area represents a first time slide.The South Slide was investigated by boreholes and test pits. Samples were obtained for laboratory testing and piezometers and tiltmeters were installed in selected boreholes.The scarp increased in height and by May 1976 it was 2.3 m high. There was no sign of a toe cropping out down the slope; however, the tiltmeters became closed off successively in a downhill direction. There is strong evidence to suggest that failure is progressing from scarp to toe.Analyses of the failure indicate residual angles of shearing resistance were being mobilized along the outer pre-sheared part of the failure surface due to old landslides. The recent slip surface comprises an inward extension of this old surface and an upward portion rising at an angle of about 55° to meet with the known scarp. Along this latter portion of the recent failure surface the soil parameters yielding the most reasonable factor of safety are a peak angle of shearing resistance and a cohesion very much less than that determined from laboratory testing.It is postulated that the failure occurred due to a gradual loss of soil strength, manifested by a virtual disappearance of cohesion, with the final triggering mechanism being a springtime rise in the pore pressure within the slide mass. Factors involved in the strength loss are suggested as including deep weathering during the Tertiary, valley rebound, and old landslide activity.

Assessing the temporal reliability of rhythm metrics

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael-Anne Knight
Keyword(s):  
Current Paper ◽  
Empirical Measure ◽  
The Sun ◽  
British English ◽  
The North ◽  
North Wind ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Current Popularity ◽  
Temporal Reliability

Despite the current popularity of rhythm metrics, there has been relatively little work aimed at establishing their validity or reliability, important characteristics of any empirical measure. The current paper focuses on the stability, or temporal reliability, of rhythm metrics by establishing if they give consistent results for the same speakers, in the same task, on successive occasions. Four speakers of Southern British English were recorded reading ‘The North Wind and the Sun’ (NWS) passage on three consecutive days. Results indicated that some measures correlate more highly across time than others, and the choice of a measure that is both reliable and valid is discussed. It is suggested that the metric that best fits these criteria is formulated in terms of the proportion of vowels within an utterance (%V).

Isotaphonomy in concept and practice: an exploration of vertebrate microfossil bonebeds in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation, north-central Montana

Paleobiology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond R. Rogers ◽  
Matthew T. Carrano ◽  
Kristina A. Curry Rogers ◽  
Magaly Perez ◽  
Anik K. Regan
Keyword(s):  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Sampling Strategies ◽  
North Central ◽  
Wetland Ecosystems ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Central Montana ◽  
Judith River Formation

AbstractVertebrate microfossil bonebeds (VMBs)—localized concentrations of small resilient vertebrate hard parts—are commonly studied to recover otherwise rarely found small-bodied taxa, and to document relative taxonomic abundance and species richness in ancient vertebrate communities. Analyses of taphonomic comparability among VMBs have often found significant differences in size and shape distributions, and thus considered them to be non-isotaphonomic. Such outcomes of “strict” statistical tests of isotaphonomy suggest discouraging limits on the potential for broad, comparative paleoecological reconstruction using VMBs. Yet it is not surprising that sensitive statistical tests highlight variations among VMB sites, especially given the general lack of clarity with regard to the definition of “strict” isotaphonomic comparability. We rigorously sampled and compared six VMB localities representing two distinct paleoenvironments (channel and pond/lake) of the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation to evaluate biases related to sampling strategies and depositional context. Few defining distinctions in bioclast size and shape are evident in surface collections, and most site-to-site comparisons of sieved collections are indistinguishable (p≤0.003). These results provide a strong case for taphonomic equivalence among the majority of Judith River VMBs, and bode well for future studies of paleoecology, particularly in relation to investigations of faunal membership and community structure in Late Cretaceous wetland ecosystems. The taphonomic comparability of pond/lake and channel-hosted VMBs in the Judith River Formation is also consistent with a formative model that contends that channel-hosted VMBs were reworked from pre-existing pond/lake assemblages, and thus share taphonomic history.

scholarly journals Indonesia's Diplomacy in North Natuna Sea in Confronting China to Protect National Interests

FOCUS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Gerald Theodorus Lumban Toruan ◽  
Adi Sunaryo
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The North ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Right

North Natuna Sea is become a concern, at the end of 2019 to February 2020 this area was illegally entered by Chinese fishing vessels who wanted to fishing, this vessel was escorted by the Chinese Coast Guard. This escort is in order to protect their fishing vessels from the pursuit of Indonesian patrol vessels. According to the them that they did not violate Indonesian territory, they said that the North Natuna Sea still belongs to Chinese territory. In the perspective of the international relations what is done by China can disrupt the stability of regional security. This research is a qualitative descriptive with secondary data collection. The formulation of the research question is what kind of diplomacy is being carried out by Indonesia towards China in the North Natuna Sea. The purpose of this research is to find the right diplomacy concept in dealing with the China in the North Natuna Sea.

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