The Formation and Failure of Natural Dams¶
Costa, J. E., & Schuster, R. L. (1988). The Formation and Failure of Natural Dams. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 100(7), 1054-1068.
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Primes¶
- Blockage Release Dynamics
- In geophysics, landslide-dam outburst floods, glacial-lake outburst floods, and river ice jams all store water behind an unengineered barrier until catastrophic release.
This sourceEstablishes that landslide and moraine dams — barriers never engineered to impound water — store a lake until overtopping or piping breaches them, releasing the accumulated volume in an outburst flood whose peak discharge far exceeds inflow, and reviews controlled-drawdown (spillway, tunnel, siphon) mitigation.
- In geophysics, landslide-dam outburst floods, glacial-lake outburst floods, and river ice jams all store water behind an unengineered barrier until catastrophic release.
Domain-specific¶
- Landslide-Dam Failure
- Costa and Schuster's 1988 analysis of historical landslide dams established that a substantial fraction fail within days to months, and that overtopping, piping, and slope collapse are the three dominant failure modes.
This sourceThe historical catalogue the sentence names, giving the survival times of landslide dams and the overtopping / piping / slope-failure mode distribution. Establishes that the outburst flood from a failed natural dam is typically the larger and farther-reaching event than the blockage that produced it.
- Costa and Schuster's 1988 analysis of historical landslide dams established that a substantial fraction fail within days to months, and that overtopping, piping, and slope collapse are the three dominant failure modes.
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