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Landslide Dams in the Central Andes of Argentina (Northern Patagonia and the Argentine Northwest)
(Springer, 2011)
Landslide dams are frequent phenomena in the Argentine Andes. We studied 20 landslide dams in NW Argentina and 41 landslide dams in northern Patagonia. These examples show that most of the landslide dams in both regions ...
Landslide dams in the Central Andes of Argentina: showing the need of revising the established landslide dam classification
(Centro di Ricerca Previsione, Prevenzione e Controllo dei Rischi Geologici, 2006-12)
The Andean cordillera of Argentina is more than 3500 km long and 50 to 550 km wide and characterized by steep relief contrasts throughout. Except for a few valleys, most of this region is scarcely populated. Hence geologic ...
Analysis of past and future dam formation and failure in the Santa Cruz River (San Juan province, Argentina)
(Elsevier Science, 2013-03)
Around 11.5*10^6 m3 of rock detached from the eastern slope of the Santa Cruz valley (San Juan province, Argentina) in the first fortnight of January 2005. The rockslide-debris avalanche blocked the course, resulting in ...
Basic limnology of fifty-one lakes in Costa Rica
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2003)
What are the main factors that trigger the giant-landslides in the Peruvian western Andes? The Aricota giant-landslide case study
(8th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics (ISAG)EC, 2019-09)
The central part of western Andes concentrates giant paleo-landslides that mobilized large volumes of rock, well preserved due to hyper arid climate of this region (Audin and Bechir, 2006; Pinto et al., 2008; Crosta et ...
Holocene ochreous lacustrine sediments within the Famatina Belt, NW Argentina: A natural case for fossil damming of an acid drainage system
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2014-04)
A 44m-thick lacustrine succession of silty-clay banded ochres and subordinated sandstones, and conglomerates (known as the Corral Amarillo Formation) is superbly exposed within the Famatina Belt (Central Andes of Argentina) ...
Pleistocene rock avalanche, damming, and secondary debris flow along the Cotahuasi river, Peru
(Elsevier, 2020-12)
Landslides are among the most frequent and dangerous mass removal processes around the globe. They can be triggered by different phenomena such as earthquakes, extraordinary rains, glacier outbursts, volcanic activity, ...
Basic limnology of fifty-one lakes in Costa RicaBasic limnology of fifty-one lakes in Costa Rica
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2003)
El deslizamiento de rocas y detritos sobre el río Santa Cruz y el aluvión resultante por el colapso del dique natural, Andes Centrales de San JuanRock-debris landslide on Santa Cruz river and resulting flash flood by collapse of the natural dam, Central Andes of San Juan
(Asociación Geológica Argentina, 2009-11)
Durante el verano de 2005 un gran deslizamiento de rocas y detritos ubicado en la ladera occidental de la Cordillera de Santa Cruz obturó el valle del río Santa Cruz, en el sudeste de la provincia de San Juan (31º40'12''S; ...