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Soil Weathered Bedrock Debris Flow: Mitigation Mechanism

There are two main types of landslides: shallow landslides and deep-seated landslides. Shallow landslides involve failure within the top few meters of soil or weathered bedrock, and can include debris slides and road cut failures. Deep-seated landslides occur below the depth of tree roots, usually involving deeper layers of soil, weathered rock, and bedrock in large rotational or translational failures. Key mitigation techniques include hazard mapping to identify prone areas, constructing retention walls to arrest land movement, increasing vegetation cover, and implementing surface drainage controls to manage water flow.

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Soil Weathered Bedrock Debris Flow: Mitigation Mechanism

There are two main types of landslides: shallow landslides and deep-seated landslides. Shallow landslides involve failure within the top few meters of soil or weathered bedrock, and can include debris slides and road cut failures. Deep-seated landslides occur below the depth of tree roots, usually involving deeper layers of soil, weathered rock, and bedrock in large rotational or translational failures. Key mitigation techniques include hazard mapping to identify prone areas, constructing retention walls to arrest land movement, increasing vegetation cover, and implementing surface drainage controls to manage water flow.

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Shallow landslide

Landslide in which the sliding surface is located within


the soil mantle or weathered bedrock (typically to a depth from
few decimetres to some metres)is called a shallow landslide.
They usually include debris slides, debris flow, and failures of
road cut-slopes. Landslides occurring as single large blocks of
rock moving slowly down slope are sometimes called block
glides.

Deep-seated landslide

Deep-seated landslide on a mountain in Sehara, Kihō, Japan caused by torrential rain of Tropical Storm Talas

Landslides in which the sliding surface is mostly deeply located


below the maximum rooting depth of trees (typically to depths
greater than ten meters). Deep-seated landslides usually involve
deep regolith, weathered rock, and/or bedrock and include large
slope failure associated with translational, rotational, or complex
movement.
Mitigation Mechanism
Advancement in scientific techniques has empowered us to
understand what factors cause landslides and how to manage them.
Some broad mitigation techniques of landslide are as follows:
• Hazard mapping locate areas prone to landslides. Hence, such areas
can be avoided for building settlements.
• Construction of retention wall to stop land from slipping.
• Increase in the vegetation cover is an effective way to arrest
landslide.
• The surface drainage control works are implemented to control the
movement of landslide along with rain water and spring flows.

Retention Wall

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