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Rockslides and Rock Avalanches of Central Asia: Distribution, Impacts, and Hazard Assessment arms scientists with an inclusive and specialized reference for future studies of large-scale bedrock landslides in Central Asia, a phenomenon that poses a major threat to local communities, infrastructure and industrial facilities. The book covers the Dzungaria, Tien Shan, and Pamir mountain systems that are characterized by arid climates and scarce forestation, and is an ideal reference for scientists searching for data that accurately summarizes bedrock landslides through the analyses of a multitude of case studies that have applications in comparable, global scenarios. Through its relatively low precipitation and good preservation of minor geomorphic features, particularly those formed by past landslides, this region provides opportunities for detailed study of the internal structure of landslide bodies.

Landslides --- Rockslides --- Rock slides --- Rock slip --- Land slides --- Landsliding --- Landslips --- Slides (Landslides) --- Mass-wasting --- Central Asia. --- Asia, Central --- Soviet Central Asia --- Tūrān --- Turkestan --- West Turkestan --- Asia

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In the last one hundred years, a number of catastrophic events associated with rockslide dam formation and failure have occurred in the mountain regions of the world. This book presents a global view of the formation, characteristics and behaviour of natural and artificial rockslide dams. Chapters include a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of our global understanding natural and artificial rockslide dams, overviews of approaches to rockslide dam risk mitigation, regional studies of rockslide dams in India, Nepal, China, Pakistan, New Zealand, and Argentina. Rockslide dams associated with large-scale instability of volcanoes are also examined. Detailed case histories of well-known historic and prehistoric rockslide dams provide examples of investigations of rockslide dam behaviour, stability, and characteristics. The formation and behaviour of rockslide-dammed lakes ("Quake Lakes") formed during the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, China are also comprehensively summarised. The formation, sedimentology and stability of rockslide dams is examined in several analytical papers. An analysis of break-out floods from volcanogenic lakes and hydrological methods of estimating break-out flood magnitude and behavior are reviewed. The use of remote sensing data in rockslide-dammed lake characterisation is explored and a new approach to the classification of rockslide dams is introduced. Finally, a unique section of the book summarises Russian and Kyrgyz experience with blast-fill dam construction in two papers by leading authorities on the technology. The volume contains 24 papers by 50 authors from 16 countries including most of the recognised world authorities on the subject.

Landslide dams --- Dam safety --- Dams --- Dam failures --- Rockslides --- Mechanical Engineering --- Geology --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Hydraulic Engineering --- Dynamic & Structural Geology --- Earthquake effects --- Rock slides --- Rock slip --- Breaches of dams --- Collapse of dams --- Dam breaches --- Dams, Landslide --- Failure --- Earth sciences. --- Structural geology. --- Physical geography. --- Earth Sciences. --- Structural Geology. --- Physical Geography. --- Environmental Monitoring/Analysis. --- Geography --- Geotectonics --- Structural geology --- Tectonics (Geology) --- Physical geology --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Geology, Structural. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Landslide dams. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Measurement --- Monitoring