... © 2017 The Author(s) 2017 The Heifangtai is located on the fourth terrace of the Yellow River, c . 60 km to the west of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, China ( Fig. 1a ). The terrace has an area of 13.7 km 2 and, since the 1960s, has been used as farmland by the people relocated from areas...

... agricultural irrigation began almost five decades ago, high-frequency landslides (three to five episodes per year) and large-scale surface collapse and subsidence events (with a maximum collapse settlement of 5.96 m) have occurred in the Heifangtai area of Gansu, China ( Locat 1995 ; Peng et al. 2018...

... becomes possible in Chinese loess similar to the loess at Heifangtai. This study was partially supported by the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41130753), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51109199). The authors’ special thanks go...

...Jianbing Peng; Jianqi Zhuang; Gonghui Wang; Fuchu Dai; Fanyu Zhang; Weiliang Huang; Qiang Xu Abstract Most landslides on the Loess Tableland (Shaanxi, China) are of the sliding-flow type, with long run-out distances. These landslides, which tend to be triggered by irrigation, result in loss of life...

... of the slide. This leads to an efficient transfer of kinetic energy and a higher mobility ( Leng et al. 2018 ) ( Fig. 6a ). In this situation, the characteristics of the flowslide become similar to those observed on the Heifangtai Platform in Gansu province, China ( Peng et al. 2017 b , 2018 ). Fig...

... is part of the cliff edge in Heifangtai, where the groundwater level rises and water flows out from the slope due to long-term irrigation behind the cliff edge ( Xu et al 2011 ; Qi et al 2018 ). Fig. 15. Field sites in Gansu, China (Map Data © 2019 Google). Figure 16 is the scheme...

... , H. , Wang , J. , Peng , J. , Gu , T. and Zhu , R. 2022 . Creep mechanical and microstructural insights into the failure mechanism of loess landslides induced by dry–wet cycles in the Heifangtai platform, China . Engineering Geology , 300 , 106589 , https://doi.org/10.1016...

... , F. & Wang , G. 2017 . Rapid loess flow slides in Heifangtai terrace, Gansu, China . Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology , 50 , 106 – 110 , https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2016-065 Peng , J. , Zhuang , F. , Wang , G. , Dai , F. , Zhang , F...

...://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2012.12.018 Zhang , F. , Wang , G. and Peng , J . 2022 . Initiation and mobility of recurring loess flowslides on the Heifangtai irrigated terrace in China: insights from hydrogeological conditions and liquefaction criteria . Engineering Geology , 302...