Alpine hillslope failure in the western US: insights from the Chaos Canyon landslide, Rocky Mountain National Park, USA

Morriss, Matthew C.; Lehmann, Benjamin; Campforts, Benjamin; Brencher, George; Rick, Brianna; Anderson, Leif S.; Handwerger, Alexander L.; Overeem, Irina; Moore, Jeffrey

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-1251-2023

Articles | Volume 11, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-1251-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-1251-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 6

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Alpine hillslope failure in the western US: insights from the Chaos Canyon landslide, Rocky Mountain National Park, USA

Matthew C. Morriss, Benjamin Lehmann, Benjamin Campforts, George Brencher, Brianna Rick, Leif S. Anderson, Alexander L. Handwerger, Irina Overeem, and Jeffrey Moore

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-1251-2023-supplement

Data sets

Alpine hillslope failure in the western US: Insights from Chaos Canyon landslide, Rocky Mountain National Park USA Matthew C. Morriss, Benjamin Lehmann, Benjamin Campforts, George Brencher, Brianna Rick, Leif Anderson, Alexander Handwerger, Irina Overeem, and Jeffrey Moore https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7854068

Model code and software

Alpine hillslope failure in the western US: Insights from Chaos Canyon landslide, Rocky Mountain National Park USA Matthew C. Morriss, Benjamin Lehmann, Benjamin Campforts, George Brencher, Brianna Rick, Leif Anderson, Alexander Handwerger, Irina Overeem, and Jeffrey Moore https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7854068

Editor

Multiple techniques are used to monitor the collapse of an Alpine landslide in the United States. It is shown that the landslide was moving rapidly pre-failure. Given that the frequency of extreme events is likely to increase with future climate change, additional monitoring of Alpine regions is essential to limit hazards from future Alpine mass movements.