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Research article
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20 Sep 2019
Research article |
| 20 Sep 2019
| 20 Sep 2019
River channel width controls blocking by slow-moving landslides in California's Franciscan mélange
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Kiara N. Broudy
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Alexander L. Nereson
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Joshua J. Roering
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
97403, USA
Alexander L. Handwerger
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Georgina Bennett
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ, UK
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Short summary
In some settings, landslides trigger valley blockages that impound huge volumes of sediment, often drastically changing river habitat and habitability. In other settings, landslides appear to have little effect on rivers. In this study, we explore what governs the different sensitivity of rivers to blocking from landslide debris. We accomplish this by comparing two sites in California with dramatic differences in blocking from otherwise similar slow-moving landslides.
In some settings, landslides trigger valley blockages that impound huge volumes of sediment,...
