Articles | Volume 4, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-743-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-743-2016
Research article
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28 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 28 Sep 2016

3-D models and structural analysis of rock avalanches: the study of the deformation process to better understand the propagation mechanism

Céline Longchamp, Antonio Abellan, Michel Jaboyedoff, and Irene Manzella

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The main objective of this research is to analyze rock avalanche dynamics by means of a detailed structural analysis of the deposits coming from data of 3-D measurements. The studied deposits are of different magnitude: (1) decimeter level scale laboratory experiments and (2) well-studied rock avalanches. Filtering techniques were developed and applied to a 3-D dataset in order to detect fault structures present in the deposits and to propose kinematic mechanisms for the propagation.