ENGINEERING GEOLOGY OF THE HAMMANA LANDSLIDES, LEBANON
Studies of the Hammana landslides, in the field and laboratory, enable their geological and engineering parameters to be assessed. The rocks, limestones, marls, sandstones, basalts and unconsolidated cover, possess a high variability in their lithological and geotechnical properties, including weakness and directly contributing to the instability of the area. The type of mass movement correlate either with compact cliff-making rock units, (rock and debris falls and rock slides) or with surficial and other relatively unconsolidated materials, (earth flows and creep). The resulting dominant slopes, being upstanding, convex, concave and rectilinear, show differential stability. Slope stability analysis indicates a more stable "depositional" zone compated to the "erosional" zone. (Author/TRRL)
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GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
BURLINGTON HOUSE, PICCADILLY
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Authors:
- Khawlie, M R
- Hassainan, H I
- Publication Date: 1984
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 137-148
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Serial:
- QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
- Volume: 17
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
- ISSN: 0481-2085
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Basalt; Compression; Erosion; Geology; Geotechnical engineering; Landslides; Limestone; Lithologic composition; Marl; Sandstones; Slope stability; Stability analysis; Strength of materials
- Geographic Terms: Lebanon
- ITRD Terms: 4183: Basalt; 5532: Compression; 5275: Erosion; 4053: Geology; 4029: Landslide; 8058: Lebanon; 4131: Limestone; 4119: Marl; 5783: Slope stability; 5544: Strength (mater)
- Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; I41: General Soil Surveys; I43: Rock Mechanics;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00391242
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Dec 30 1984 12:00AM