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Geologic, geotechnical, and geophysical investigation of a shallow landslide, eastern Kentucky
Index Terms/Descriptors
- Appalachian Plateau
- Appalachians
- aquifers
- boreholes
- Boyd County Kentucky
- characterization
- clastic rocks
- clastic sediments
- colluvium
- damage
- engineering properties
- failures
- geologic hazards
- ground water
- human activity
- hydrology
- inclinometers
- Kentucky
- land use
- landslides
- mass movements
- moisture
- natural hazards
- North America
- pressuremeters
- rainfall
- resistivity
- sandstone
- sedimentary rocks
- sediments
- shale
- shallow aquifers
- slope stability
- soil mechanics
- tomography
- two-dimensional models
- United States
- water table
- eastern Kentucky
- Meadowview Landslide
Latitude & Longitude
Abstract
Shallow colluvial landslides are common in eastern Kentucky, as well as east-central Appalachian region. A geological, geotechnical, and geophysical investigation was carried out for a shallow colluvial landslide in Boyd County, Kentucky. The purpose of this project was to assess the geologic conditions, extent, and behavior of a rainfall-triggered landslide in eastern Kentucky and evaluate the use of electrical resistivity as a tool to characterize a shallow colluvial landslide. This study showed 1) colluvial landslide movement is correlated to the rain fall; and 2) inverted resistivity sections with distinct resistivity contrasts that correlated to landslide stratigraphy, depth of the failure surface, and groundwater regimes.
ISSN: 1078-7275
EISSN: 1558-9161
Coden: ENGEA9
Serial Title: Environmental & Engineering Geoscience
Serial Volume: 21
Serial Issue: 3
Title: Geologic, geotechnical, and geophysical investigation of a shallow landslide, eastern Kentucky
Affiliation: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY,
United States
Pages: 181-195
Published: 20150813
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America, Association of Engineering Geologists,
College Station, TX,
United States
Number of pages: 27
References: 32
Accession Number: 2015-091618
Categories: Engineering geologyEnvironmental geology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. 1 table, sketch map
N38°15'00" - N38°30'00", W82°49'60" - W82°34'60"
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2018, American Geosciences Institute. Abstract, Copyright, Association of Engineering Geologists and the Geological Society of America. Reference includes data from GeoScienceWorld, Alexandria, VA, United States
Update Code: 201539
