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Proceedings of the International Symposium of the International Society for Rock Mechanics, Eurock 2006, Liège, Belgium, 9-12 May 2006, 2006

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Heavy rainfall on February 20, 2010 triggered numerous shallow rapid landslides across Madeira Is... more Heavy rainfall on February 20, 2010 triggered numerous shallow rapid landslides across Madeira Island. Most failures started asdebris slides or avalanches at high elevations and transformed into debris flows which rushed downslope into populated coastal areas. The exceptional storm event induced multiple landslide types which show the relations of a cascading effect between preceding landslide processes and triggered successive landslide processes. Cascading effects taken place as large-scale shallow landslides were subsequently channelized into debris flows, which in turn transformed into linked-chains of debris flows by the remobilization of older deposits. The cascading effect continued as channelized debris flows abruptly or transitionally diluted into abrasive hyperconcentrated flows, triggering further slope failures by removal of the lateral support of adjacent slopes. At abrupt changes to low flow velocities and low water-tosediment ratios, hyperconcentrated flows formed tem...

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At present the pumped-storage hydropower plant Blautal is planned with a unsealed lower basin bel... more At present the pumped-storage hydropower plant Blautal is planned with a unsealed lower basin below the groundwater table in a limestone quarry at the southern margin of the Blautal, about 4 Km east of the karst spring Blautopf. The lower basin will be bordered in the east by a steep 95 m high rock face. Due to the high environmental sensibility minimal impact of basin and groundwater level fluctuations to the vicinity is required. To ensure this a detailed geohydraulic and geotechnical rock mass description is essential for modeling. Therefore, terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) was used to map the quarry and subsequently a high resolution digital elevation model (HRDEM) was established. This allows to perform spatial joint analysis with respect to the distribution of geohydraulic and geotechnical properties of the rock mass in the quarry. The results show a high quality and allow a distributed joint analysis and identification as well as projection of major joints in the quarry. Res...

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