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Book Guidelines for the Geologic Evaluation of Debris flow Hazards on Alluvial Fans in Utah

Download or read book Guidelines for the Geologic Evaluation of Debris flow Hazards on Alluvial Fans in Utah written by Richard E. Giraud and published by Utah Geological Survey. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Utah Geological Survey (UGS) developed these guidelines to help geologists evaluate debris-flow hazards on alluvial fans to ensure safe development. Debris-flow hazard evaluations are particularly important because alluvial fans are the primary sites of debris-flow deposition and are also favored sites for development. The purpose of a debris-flow-hazard evaluation is to characterize the hazard and provide design parameters for risk reduction. The UGS recommends critical facilities and structures for human occupancy not be placed in active debris flow travel and deposition areas unless the risk is reduced to an acceptable level. These guidelines use the characteristics of alluvial fan deposits as well as drainage-basin and feeder-channel sediment-supply conditions to evaluate debris-flow hazards. The hazard evaluation relies on the geomorphology, sedimentology, and stratigraphy of existing alluvial fan deposits. Analysis of alluvial-fan deposits provides the geologic basis for estimating frequency and potential volume of debris flows and describing debris-flow behavior. Drainage-basin and feeder-channel characteristics determine potential debris-flow susceptibility and the volume of stored channel sediment available for sediment bulking in future flows.

Book Landslide Risk Management

Download or read book Landslide Risk Management written by Oldrich Hungr and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landslide Risk Management comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, held in Vancouver, Canada, from May 31 to June 3, 2005. The first part of the book contains state-of-the-art and invited lectures, prepared by teams of authors selected for their experience in specific topics assigned to them by the JTC

Book 2016GUIDELINES FOR INVESTIGATING GEOLOGIC HAZARDS AND PREPARING ENGINEERING GEOLOGY REPORTS  WITH A SUGGESTED APPROACH TO GEOLOGIC HAZARD ORDINANCES IN UTAH

Download or read book 2016GUIDELINES FOR INVESTIGATING GEOLOGIC HAZARDS AND PREPARING ENGINEERING GEOLOGY REPORTS WITH A SUGGESTED APPROACH TO GEOLOGIC HAZARD ORDINANCES IN UTAH written by Steve D. Bowman and published by Utah Geological Survey. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of these guidelines for investigating geologic hazards and preparing engineering-geology reports, is to provide recommendations for appropriate, minimum investigative techniques, standards, and report content to ensure adequate geologic site characterization and geologic-hazard investigations to protect public safety and facilitate risk reduction. Such investigations provide important information on site geologic conditions that may affect or be affected by development, as well as the type and severity of geologic hazards at a site, and recommend solutions to mitigate the effects and the cost of the hazards, both at the time of construction and over the life of the development. The accompanying suggested approach to geologic-hazard ordinances and school-site investigation guidelines are intended as an aid for land-use planning and regulation by local Utah jurisdictions and school districts, respectively. Geologic hazards that are not accounted for in project planning and design often result in additional unforeseen construction and/or future maintenance costs, and possible injury or death.

Book Report of Investigation

Download or read book Report of Investigation written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Debris Flows in Southern Davis County  Utah

Download or read book Debris Flows in Southern Davis County Utah written by Nancy Simister Keate and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Delineation of Landslide  Flash Flood  and Debris Flow Hazards in Utah

Download or read book Delineation of Landslide Flash Flood and Debris Flow Hazards in Utah written by David S. Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications

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  • Author : Utah Geological Survey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Publications written by Utah Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Survey Notes

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Survey Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The State Geologist s Journal

Download or read book The State Geologist s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geologic Consequences of the 1983 Wet Year in Utah

Download or read book Geologic Consequences of the 1983 Wet Year in Utah written by Bruce N. Kaliser and published by Utah Geological Survey. This book was released on 1988 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Assessment of Regional Earthquake Hazards and Risk Along the Wasatch Front  Utah

Download or read book Assessment of Regional Earthquake Hazards and Risk Along the Wasatch Front Utah written by Paula Gori and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters A-J are issued as a single volume and are not available separately.

Book History of Mendocino and Lake Counties  California

Download or read book History of Mendocino and Lake Counties California written by Aurelius O. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alluvial Fan Flooding

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  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1996-10-07
  • ISBN : 0309185491
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Alluvial Fan Flooding written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-10-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges in arid and semiarid regions such as the American West. Floods on alluvial fans, although characterized by relatively shallow depths, strike with little if any warning, can travel at extremely high velocities, and can carry a tremendous amount of sediment and debris. Such flooding presents unique problems to federal and state planners in terms of quantifying flood hazards, predicting the magnitude at which those hazards can be expected at a particular location, and devising reliable mitigation strategies. Alluvial Fan Flooding attempts to improve our capability to determine whether areas are subject to alluvial fan flooding and provides a practical perspective on how to make such a determination. The book presents criteria for determining whether an area is subject to flooding and provides examples of applying the definition and criteria to real situations in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, and elsewhere. The volume also contains recommendations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is primarily responsible for floodplain mapping, and for state and local decisionmakers involved in flood hazard reduction.

Book From the Sierra to the Sea

Download or read book From the Sierra to the Sea written by William S. Alevizon and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original report From the Sierra to the Sea: Ecological History of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Watershed was a product of a three-year effort to develop a landscape level overview of the natural ecological structure, function and organization of the watershed, and the way it had changed over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Technical review and contributions from government and water agencies helped produce a collaborative document that provided information on the historical ecological baseline in order to assist in what was envisioned at the time as the most ambitious restoration effort ever undertaken in the United States. We are proud of the fact that the original document is still used as an objective reference, and has provided a foundation and inspiration for similar but more intensively researched localized efforts by others in the Bay-Delta watershed. This 20th anniversary edition contains a new Afterword describing changes to the estuary and its watershed since the report was originally published in 1998.

Book The State Water Plan

Download or read book The State Water Plan written by Pennsylvania. Bureau of Resources Programming and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: