Distribution of soils and solifluction layers in landslide area of South-West Germany
Distribution of soils and solifluction layers in landslide area of South-West Germany作者机构:Geographisches Institut. Holderlinstr. 12 D-72074 Tubingen Germany
出 版 物:《Chinese Science Bulletin》 (科学通报(英文版))
年 卷 期:1999年第44卷第S1期
页 面:173-180页
学科分类:070903[理学-古生物学与地层学(含:古人类学)] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学]
主 题:landslide soil south-west Germany heavey mineral slope evolution
摘 要:As part of the MABIS research project (Mass movements in South and West-Germany)which was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) detailed causal, age and riskanalyses were carried out on several landslides. Investigations were carried out on the SwabianJurassic escarpment (South-West Germany). The mass movements were examined by means ofgeomorphological and pedological field mapping, through the differentiation of the solifluctionlayers and through mineralogical analyses. These investigations aimed at distinguishing betweenHolocene and Pleistocene landslides, classifying different climatic cycles of slope evolution andgathering information about potential risk areas. It could be confirmed that large rotationallandslides (earth-slump flows according to Vames 1978) occurred during the Pleistocene period,whereas during the Holocene period these fossil mass movements were only reworked anddisplaced.