Creep |
(1) Shallow, predominantly seasonal creep |
|
(a) Soil creep |
|
(b) Talus creep |
|
(2) Deep-seated continuous creep; mass creep |
|
(3) Progressive creep |
|
|
Frozen ground |
(4) Freeze—thaw movements |
|
(a) Solifluction |
|
(b) Cambering and valley-bulging |
|
(c) Stone streams |
|
(d) Rock glaciers |
Landslides |
(5) Translational slides |
|
(a) Rock slides; block glides |
|
(b) Slab, or flake slides |
|
(c) Detritus, or debris slides |
|
(d) Mudflows |
|
(i) Climatic mudflows |
|
(ii) Volcanic mudflows |
|
(e) Bog flows; bog bursts |
|
(f) Flow failures |
|
(i) Loess flows |
|
(ii) Flow slides |
|
(6) Rotational slips |
|
(a) Single rotational slips |
|
(b) Multiple rotational slips |
|
(i) in stiff, fissured clay |
|
(ii) in soft, extra-sensitive clays; clay flows |
|
(c) Successive, or stepped rotational slips |
|
(7) Falls |
|
(a) Stone and boulder falls |
|
(b) Rock and soil falls |
|
|
|
(8) Sub-aqueous slides |
|
(a) Flow slides |
|
(b) Under-consolidated clay slides |
A |
Rebound |
|
|
|
|
1 |
Movements associated with man-made excavations |
|
|
2 |
Movements associated with naturally eroded valleys |
B |
Creep |
|
|
|
|
1 |
Superficial, predominantly seasonal creep; mantle creep |
|
|
2 |
Deep-seated, continuous creep; mass creep |
|
|
3 |
Pre-failure creep; progressive creep |
|
|
4 |
Post-failure creep |
C |
Sagging |
|
of mountain
slopes |
|
|
1 |
Single-sided sagging associated with the initial stages of landsliding |
|
|
2 |
Double-sided sagging, associated with the initial stages of double landsliding, leading to ridge spreading |
|
|
3 |
Sagging associated with multiple toppling |
D |
Landslides |
|
|
|
|
1 |
Confined failures |
|
|
2 |
Rotational slips |
|
|
3 |
Compound failures (markedly non-circular, with listric or bi-planar slip) |
|
|
4 |
Translational slides |
E |
Debris movements of flow-like form |
|
|
|
|
1 |
Mudslides (non-periglacial) |
|
|
2 |
Periglacial mudslides (gelifluction of clays) |
|
|
3 |
Flow slides |
|
|
4 |
Debris flows, very to extremely rapid flows of wet debris |
|
|
5 |
Sturzstroms, extremely rapid flows of dry debris |
F |
Topples |
|
|
|
|
1 |
Topples bounded by pre-existing discontinuities |
|
|
2 |
Topples released by tension failure at rear of mass |
G |
Falls |
|
|
|
|
1 |
Primary, involving fresh detachment of material; rock and soil falls |
|
|
2 |
Secondary, involving loose material, detached earlier; stone falls |
H |
Complex slope movements |
|
|
|
|
1 |
Cambering and valley-bulging |
|
|
2 |
Block-type slope movements |
|
|
3 |
Abandoned clay cliffs |
|
|
4 |
Landslides breaking down into mudslides or flows at the toe |
|
|
5 |
Slides caused by seepage erosion |
|
|
6 |
Multi-tiered slides |
|
|
7 |
Multi-storeyed slides |
Alport Castles, Derbyshire |
Axmouth-Lyme Regis, Devon–Dorset |
Beinn Fhada, Highland |
Black Ven, Dorset |
Blacknor Cliffs, Dorset |
Buckland's Windypit, |
North Yorkshire |
Canyards Hills, Sheffield |
Coire Gabhail, Highland |
Eglwyseg Scarp (Creigiau Eglwyseg), Clwyd |
Entrance Cutting at Bath University, Avon |
Cwm-du, Ceredigion |
Folkestone Warren, Kent |
Glen Pean, Highland* Hallaig, |
Isle of Raasay, Highland |
High Halstow, Kent |
Hob's House, Derbyshire |
Llyn-y-Fan Fach, Carmarthenshire |
Lud's Church, North Staffordshire |
Mam Tor, Derbyshire |
Peak Scar, North Yorkshire |
Postlip Warren, Gloucestershire |
Rowlee Bridge, Derbyshire |
Spot Lane Quarry, Kent* |
Stutfall Castle, Kent |
Trimingham Cliffs, Norfolk |
Trotternish Escarpment, Isle of Skye, Highland (The Storr and Quiraing) |
Warden Point, Kent |
* Glen Pean and Spot Lane Quarry have now been deleted from the Mass-Movements GCR 'Block' (selection category) — see text. |
Site |
Authors' classifications |
Style |
Type |
Hutchinson categories 1968a |
Hutchinson categories 1988 |
Alport Castles |
Mass rock creep, retrogressive rotational, translational |
Composite |
Slide, flow |
2, 5a, 6bi |
B2, D2, D4 |
Axmouth-Lyme Regis |
Translational, rotational, subsidence |
Complex |
Slide, spread |
5a, 6bi, 6a, 6c, 7a, 7b |
D2, D3, D4 |
Beinn Fhada (Ben Attow) |
Large-scale slope deformation, local slides, possible sags or forward topples |
Complex |
Spread |
2, 5a |
A2, B2, Cl, D4, Fl |
Beinn Alligin |
Large rockfall with excess run-out |
Single |
Fall, flow |
5fii, 7b |
E3, G1 |
Ben Hee |
Arrested translational slide |
Multiple |
Slide |
5a |
D4 |
Benvane |
Slope deformation and translational slide |
Multiple |
Spread, slide |
2, 5a |
B2, D4 |
Black Ven |
Mudslides |
Complex |
Slide |
5di |
El |
Blacknor Cliffs |
Block slide, slab failure |
Complex |
Slide, topple |
5a |
D4 |
Buckland's Windypit |
Block slides |
Multiple |
Slide |
5a, 4b |
D4 |
Canyards Hills |
Translational with breakup into ridges, lateral extension |
Multiple |
Slide |
5a |
D4 |
Carn Dubh, Ben Gulabin |
Translational slide to flow |
Single |
Slide, flow |
5a, 5fii |
D4, E4 |
Coire Gabhail |
Rockfalls, landslide dam, run-up opposite |
Multiple |
Fall |
7b |
G1 |
Cwm-du |
Sub-snow solifluction sheets OR 'landslides' |
Multiple |
Slide |
4a, 5c |
E2 |
Druim Shionnach |
In-situ slope deformation progressing to toppling |
Composite |
Spread |
2 |
B2, C3 |
Eglwyseg Scarp (Creigiau Eglwyseg) |
Active screes and relict clitter slopes |
Multiple |
Fall |
7a, 7b |
G |
Entrance Cutting at Bath University |
Gulls, cambers, dip-and-fault structure |
Composite |
Spread |
4b |
H |
Folkestone Warren |
Rockfalls, clay extrusion, rotational |
Complex |
Fall, slide |
6bi |
D2, G, H |
Hallaig |
Rotational slide, possibly seismically triggered |
Single |
Slide |
6a |
D2 |
Glen Ample |
|
|
|
|
|
Beinn Each |
Compressional slope deformation, local rockfall |
Multiple |
Spread |
2, 7b |
A2, G1 |
Ben Our |
Extensional slope deformation, slides, topples |
Complex |
Spread |
2, 5a |
B2, C1, D4, F1 |
High Halstow |
Shallow successive rotational slips, hillwash, soil creep |
Successive |
Slide |
la, 6bi, 6c |
B, D2 |
Hob's House |
Rotational slip |
Single |
Slide |
6a |
D2 |
Llyn-y-Fan Each |
Debris flow |
Multiple |
Flow |
5c |
E3 |
Lud's Church |
Bed-on-bed translational sliding within a rotational mass |
Single |
Slide |
5a, 6a |
D2, D4 |
Mam Tor |
Slump-earthflow |
Multiple |
Slide, flow |
6c, 5c |
D3, E3, H4 |
Peak Scar |
Block slide, topples |
Complex |
Slide, topple |
5a |
D4, F |
Postlip Warren |
Large-scale gravitational slips, 'founders' |
Successive |
Spread |
5a, 4b |
H |
Rowlee Bridge |
Valley-bulge |
Complex |
Spread |
4b |
H |
Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe |
Extensional slope deformations and slides |
Complex |
Spread, slide |
2, 5a |
B2, D4 |
Stutfall Castle |
Soil creep, earthflow, translational |
Complex |
Flow, slide |
la, 5c, 6b |
B, D4, E1 |
The Cobbler |
'Short-travel arrested translational slide; also sub- cataclasmic |
Single |
Slide, fall |
5a, 7b |
D4, E3 |
Trimingham Cliffs |
Blockfall, seepage failure, mudslides, rotational slip |
Composite |
Fall, slide |
5di, 6a |
D2, El, G, H |
Trotternish Escarpment |
|
|
|
|
|
Quiraing |
Retrogressive translational slide, rockfall |
Multiple |
Slide, fall |
5a, 7b |
D4, G1 |
The Storr |
Retrogressive translational slide, topples |
Multiple |
Slide, topple |
5a, 7b |
D4, F2 |
Warden Point |
Rotational, topples |
Composite |
Slide, topple |
6b |
D2, F |
RSF |
Ref. |
Mode |
Area km2 |
Vol. x106m3 |
Depth m |
H/S m |
A/S m |
Slide plane |
Comments |
Loch Vaich, Ross-shire |
2 |
ext def |
0.5 |
|
>50? |
|
2 |
J low angle |
Short-travel (50 m) slip, forward toppling on 60° F |
Sgurr Bhreac, Fannich |
2,3 |
ext def |
0.82 |
36? |
? |
30 |
Sm |
? |
Sackung with lattice of fissures |
Beinn Alligin, Torridon |
1,2 |
cata |
0.52 |
3.5 |
200 20 #1 |
60 |
— |
42° |
Acute faulted wedge in sub-horizontal sandstone |
Glenuaig, Strathcarron |
2 |
ext def |
0.7 |
|
? |
<5 |
<2 |
F 15°+ |
Short-travel sliding slump, incipient fissuring |
Sgurr na Conbhaire, Monar |
2,6 |
sub-cata |
0.35 |
|
150 |
|
2 |
F 30- 40° |
Long-travel (150 m) slump onto lower slope |
Sgurr na Feartaig, Strathcarron |
2 |
ext def |
0.9 |
|
100? |
2 |
yes |
F |
Short-travel block slide |
An Socach, Monar |
2 |
comp def |
1.0 |
— |
20? |
nil |
sm |
- |
500 m long, linear A/S diffuse margins — rebound |
Carn na Con Dhu, Mullardoch |
2,3 |
slide |
1.46 |
61? |
120? |
12 35? |
2 |
not on F/J |
Short-travel slide/slump, A/S <200 m long on strike of J1+J2 |
An Sornach, Affric |
2,3,4 |
ext def |
0.75 |
13? |
30? |
42 |
3 |
not F/J |
Slip with A/S lattice > bulge
> collapse. Rebound 5 m A/S |
Mullach Fraoch-choire, Affric |
3 |
sub-cata |
0.2 |
0.73 |
20 |
10 |
— |
J2,3 29° |
Slide tongue within 1.1 km' slope deformation |
Sgurr na Lapaich, Affric |
2,3 |
comp def |
0.3 |
7? |
100? |
10 |
— |
— |
Ridge crest failure, possibly seismic/rebound faulting |
Beinn Fhada, Kintail |
2,3, 4,6 |
comp def |
3.0 |
112 #2 |
100? |
none |
10 |
— |
~8 sub-horizontal A/S < 700 m long, main ones are 5–8 m high |
Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe, Glenshiel |
5 |
ext def |
1.25 |
5–10 #3 |
80 |
15 |
(11)
5 |
not F/J |
Summit lowered -10 m > long-travel slide in deformation |
Sgurr a' Bhealaich Dheirg, Glenshiel |
2 |
comp def |
0.7 |
|
100? |
|
6 |
— |
Bulging slide, rebound A/S < 200 m long |
Ciste Dhubh, Affric |
5 |
sub-cata |
0.46 |
7 |
80 |
30 |
2 |
? |
Corrie-floor source, toe reaches river in breach glen |
Druim Shionnach, Cluanie |
5 |
comp def |
0.55 |
— |
150? |
25 |
(14)
3 |
— |
Top A/S is outer half of graben > Cluanie bulge |
Meall Buidhe, Knoydart |
6 |
ext def |
0.5 |
|
40? |
30 |
7? |
J1,2 < 44° |
Broad slump zone |
Mam na Cloiche Airde, Knoydart |
6 |
sub-cata |
0.26 |
|
40 |
20 |
— |
35° |
Semi-intact masses > slope debris > 5° flow slide |
Glen Pean, Knoydart |
6 |
comp def |
2.5 |
— |
60? |
|
— |
J1 28–48° |
A/S array on strike of F/J2, cataclasmic slide to west |
Great Glen |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Streap, Glenfinnan |
6 |
Slide |
0.25 |
|
25 |
75 |
(10) |
J1
36° |
Long-travel arrested sub-cataclasmic summit has lost top ~15 m, seismic trigger? |
Beinn an Lochain W, Arrochar |
6 |
ext def |
0.34 |
|
15? |
<5 |
<2 |
F 20–30° |
Thin, undeveloped slide, upper tier beside |
The Cobbler SW, Arrochar |
4 |
slide |
0.62 |
8–10 |
30 |
28 |
(10) 6 |
not F |
Four-panel, short-travel, disintegrated slip |
Hell's Glen, Cowal |
3,6 |
ext def |
0.52 |
1.75 (+) |
60 |
15 |
(15) 5 |
J2 40–50° |
Topple block slips and collapses in broad slump |
Mullach Coire a' Chuir, Cowal |
3 |
slide |
0.57 |
9.6? |
20 |
50 |
(12) 2 |
F + J2 |
Part-collapsed sliding topple on stepped surface |
Meallan Sidhein, Loch Striven |
6 |
slide |
0.75 |
|
70 |
40 |
— |
F 25–32° |
Slip in phyllite, effective F dip 20°, equals RFA |
Tullich Hill West and East |
4 |
slide |
1.25 in total |
|
|
40 |
8 |
not F |
Short-travel, multi-phase, slump complex |
Benvane, Trossachs |
4 |
def/ slide |
1.25 |
25 |
20–30 |
26 |
3 |
not F |
Deformation progresses laterally to slide |
Ben Our (Glen Ample), Lochearnhead |
4 |
def |
2.90 |
100–200? |
150? |
4 |
4 |
— |
Platy deformation with basal slumps |
Footnotes:
'Ref.': reference sources are (1) Ballantyne, 2003; (2) Fenton, 1991; (3) Holmes, 1984; (4) Jarman, 2003c,d,e, 2004a, and present volume; (5) Jarman, 2003b; (6) Watters, 1972.
'Mode': cata = cataclasmic; sub-cata = sub-cataclasmic; ext def = extensional deformation (sag, creep); comp def = compressional deformation (rebound).
'Area': RSF size is here taken as the gross area including source cavity, since most cases are incompletely evacuated. British Geological Survey mapping of RSF is variable and incomplete, but recent sheets only map as 'landslips' disturbed ground, thus excluding both source areas and semi-intact slope deformations. The gross area best indicates the geomorphologi-cal impact of the RSF, but clearly requires adjustment when volumetric calculations are made.
'Vol'(-ume) and maximum 'Depth' should be seen as broad estimates, especially sites marked '?' where the depth cannot readily be assessed.
#1 depth figures are for cavity (ref. 2) and debris tongue (ref. 1);
#2 volume (ref. 3) assumes there is a failed mass with a boundary at -100 m, no volume can be calculated if the failure partly dissipates at depth;
#3 volume and depth are for main cavity within larger deformation.
'H/S' = headscarp (rear scarp, source scarp) maximum height.
'A/S' = antiscarp (obsequent scarp, counterscarp, uphill-facing scarp) maximum height — figures in brackets are graben trenches or uphill faces of large slipped masses.
'Slide plane': F = foliation or schistosity surface;
J = joint-sets (in order of significance);
RFA = residual friction angle. |
|
Cross section |
Pore pressure assumption on slip surface |
Value of car' Gault Clay required for F = 1.0 |
Remarks |
|
|
|
Janbu (()) |
Morgenstern and Price (°) |
|
1915 landslip |
W4 lower profile |
Maximum |
10.2 |
|
Slip surface entirely in Gault Clay |
|
|
Minimum |
8.3 |
|
|
|
W4 upper profile |
Maximum |
10.3 |
|
Slip surface entirely in Gault Clay |
|
|
Minimum |
8.5 |
|
|
|
W4 average profile |
Maximum |
10.25 |
9.7 |
Slip surface entirely in Gault Clay |
|
|
Minimum |
8.4 |
7.7 |
|
|
W6 |
Maximum |
16.55 |
16.3 |
ør' for small length of slip surface in Chalk Marl at rear of slip = 20° |
|
|
Minimum |
14.3 |
13.8 |
|
|
W8 |
Maximum |
23.85 |
22.2 |
ør' for small length of slip surface in Lower Chalk at rear of slip = 23° |
|
|
Minimum |
20.1 |
18.7 |
|
|
Weighted average of sections W4 (average), W6 and W8 |
Maximum |
17.6 |
16.6 |
|
|
|
Minimum |
14.8 |
13.9 |
|
1937 landslip |
W1 |
Maximum |
17.4 |
|
ør' for small length of slip surface in Lower Chalk at rear of slip = 23° |
|
|
Minimum |
14.9 |
|
|
|
W2 |
Maximum |
18.3 |
16.2 |
ør' for small length of slip surface in Lower Chalk at rear of slip = 23° |
|
|
Minimum |
15.9 |
14.0 |
|
1940 landslip |
W5 |
Maximum |
13.9 |
12.5 |
ør' for small length of slip surface in Chalk Marl at rear of slip = 20° |
|
|
Minimum |
13.0 |
11.6 |
|
|
W7 |
Maximum |
19.2 |
17.6 |
ør' for small length of slip surface in Chalk Marl at rear of slip = 20° |
|
|
Minimum |
17.6 |
16.4 |
|
|
Average of (W5 + W7)/2 |
Maximum |
16.55 |
15.05 |
ør' for small length of slip surface in Chalk Marl at rear of slip = 20° |
|
|
Minimum |
15.3 |
14.0 |
|