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Landslides and its Remedial Measures: An Overview

Author(s):

Rajneesh Yadav , Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India; Dr.SriRam, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India; Amit Singh, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India; Sandeep Sushil Srivastav, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India

Keywords:

highways, buildings, sliding, spreading

Abstract

Landslides constitute one of the major natural disasters in the ecosystem. The fragile terrain often faces significant problems of geo-environmental imbalance due to landslides. The term' landslide' includes all varieties of mass movements of hill slopes and can be defined as the downward and outward movement of slope forming materials composed of rocks, soils, artificial fills or combination of all these materials along surfaces of separation by falling, sliding and flowing, either slowly or quickly from one place to another. Although the landslides are primarily associated with mountainous terrains, these can also occur in areas where an activity such as surface excavations for highways, buildings and open pit mines takes place.

Other Details

Paper ID: IJSRDV2I6236
Published in: Volume : 2, Issue : 6
Publication Date: 01/09/2014
Page(s): 698-702

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