sturzstrom

plural sturzstroms · plural sturzströme

1. A rock avalanche, a large landslide of soil and rock which travels a much greater horizontal than vertical distance.

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   1996, Sturzstroms and Detachment Faults, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California

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   ... sturzstrom deposits suggest that sturzstroms are emplaced as collections of fragments through which deformation is concentrated along their base and, possibly, also along narrow bands at higher levels.

   2001 December 6, U. Briegel, Wen-Jiao Xiao, Paradoxes in Geology, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 249

   Such behaviour reverses when the sturzstrom eventually slows down.

   2012, Bernd Imre, Micromechanical Analyses of Sturzstroms (rock Avalanches) on Earth and Mars, vdf Hochschulverlag AG, →ISBN, page 122

   Sturzströme, irrespective of their provenance, have elements in common suggesting a ubiquitous mechanism of motion and emplacement. The elements in question are discussed in the following paragraphs. Sturzströme move at great [speed...]

   2012, Canadian Geotechnical Journal: Revue Canadienne de Géotechnique

   ... sturzstrom deposit leaves no doubt that the descent of a rockfall mass is not the result of sliding of a rigid mass, simply because the geometry of the sturzstrom deposit is different from that of original rock mass. Even so,[…]

   2012 December 2, Natural Phenomena, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 90

   ... sturzstrom deposit shows shear surfaces, or ramps, that step up eastward (Fig. 17). The ramps are seen in the walls of canyons incised subparallel to the paleoflow direction. It seems that as some basal Split Mountain sturzstrom[…]

   2002 January 1, Stephen G. Evans, Jerome V. DeGraff, Catastrophic Landslides: Effects, Occurrence, and Mechanisms, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, page 392