Living on a slippery slope: Case studies of geologic hazards from the Wasatch Front, Utah part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Throughout their history, humans have fought the natural elements; we build shelters, roads, hospitals and malls wherever we can engineer "solutions" and strategies that permit us to thrive, even in harsh ...

The Largest Landslides on Earth part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
In landscape evolution, landslides are thought to play a prime role in controlling hillslope erosional response to tectonic, climatic, and anthropogenic forcing (e.g. Korup et al., 2007; Hewitt et al., 2008). ...

Megathrust earthquakes, coastal uplift, and emergent marine terraces of Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Jeff Marshall Cal Poly Pomona University   Location Continent: Central America  Country: Costa Rica  State/Province: Nicoya Peninsula  City/Town:  UTM coordinates and datum: none Setting ...

Assessing Future Flood Risks in the Taihu Basin, East China part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
The past decade has seen a significant transition in the management of fluvial and coastal flood risks from flood 'defence' (employing 'hard engineering' measures such as flood embankments, ...

What Do Landslides Have to Do with Carbon Budgets? part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
The development of carbon markets as one tool to reduce greenhouse gases and their role in global climate change has raised the interest of society in carbon sequestration and release. Much current research is now ...

Marine Geomorphology: Geomorphic Processes, Hazards, and Paradoxes in Monterey Canyon part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Introduction While traditional geomorphic studies focus on the geologic processes and products that shape our terrestrial topography, there are equally exciting opportunities to explore the other 71% of the planet ...

Flood-prone Low-lying Territories along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Over recent decades the increased frequency of natural hazards resulting from global climate change has become one of the most severe problems affecting sustainability of costal zones. In particular, low-lying ...

Comparative planetology: the geomorphology of volatile cycling and catastrophic flooding part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
INTRODUCTION: Three planetary bodies in our Solar System show landforms that provide evidence of liquid flowing over the surface, either at present or in the past. The surface flow of liquid is evidence for a ...

Natural tree death, forest harvest, changes in hillslope hydrology, and implications to slope stability part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Death of trees by either forest harvest or by natural forest decline may result in increases in soil saturation, flooding, and landslides. These geomorphic processes, potentially differing in frequency and ...

Geophysical prospecting on a complex rock glacier in the semi-arid Andes of Argentinia (Morenas Coloradas, Mendoza, Argentina) part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
In the semi-arid high Andes of Argentina and Chile, rock glaciers are more frequent than glaciers. Rock glaciers are periglacial landforms composed of rock, ice, water and air formed by creeping debris on sloped ...