Lab Information

Slumgullion Landslide:

Parise, M., J.A. Coe, W.Z. Savage, and D.J. Varnes. 2003. The Slumgullion landslide (south-western Colorado, USA): investigation and monitoring. International Workshop on Occurrence and Mechanisms of Flows in Natural Slopes and Earthfills, IW-Flows2003, Sorrento, May 14-16, 2003. http://ww.unina2.it/flows2003/flows2003/articoli/articoli.htm. Accessed 12/3/10.

USGS Landslide Photo Collection.

Angle of Repose Resources (note: you don't need to read entire articles; just skim through them and look for information on the angle of repose.)

Adams et al. 2001. Morphology and curvature of delta slopes in Swiss lakes: lessons for the interpretation of clinoforms in seismic data. Sedimentology 48:661-679.

Arthon Construction, LTD. (accessed 12/4/10) Aggregates: Angle of Repose.

Bailey, D. 1996. Angle of repose.

Carrigy, M.A. 1970. Experiments on the angles of repose of granular materials. Sedimentology 14:147-158.

Carson, M.A. and D.J. Petley. 1970. The existence of threshold hillslopes in the denudation of the landscape. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 49:71-95.

Ghazavi, et al. 2008. A comparison between angle of repose and friction angle of sand. The 12th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, October 1-6, Goa, India.

Hornbaker et al. 1997. What keeps sandcastles standing? Nature 387,765.

Illinois Physics Van. 2006. Sand Piles. University of Illinois Physics Department, College of Engineering.

Kentner, J.A.M. 1990 Carbonate platform flanks: slope angle and sediment fabric. Sedimentology 37(5):777-794. (if you can't access this, get to it through MyPoint - Library - Journals A to Z - Sedimentology.)

Lohnes, R.A. and R.L. Handy. 1968. Slope angles in friable loess. The Journal of Geology, 76(3):247-258. (Note: abstract only; not entire article).

Makse et al. 1997. Spontaneous stratification in granular mixtures. Nature 386, 379-381.

Melton, M.A. 1965. Debris-covered hillslopes of the southern Arizona Desert: consideration of their stability and sediment contribution. The Journal of Geology 73(5):715-729. (Note: abstract only; not entire article).

Pye, K. 1982. Morphological development of coastal dunes in a humid tropical environment, Cape Bedford and Cape Flattery, North Queensland. Geographfiska Annaler, Series A, Physical Geography 64(3/4):213-227.

Rahn, P.H. 1969. Relationship between natural forested slopes and angles of repose for sand and gravel. GSA Bulletin 80:2123-2128.

Rapp, A. 1959. Avalanche boulder tongues in Lappland. Geografiska Annaler 41(1):34-48.

Statham, I. 1972. Scree slope development under conditios of surface particle movement. Transactions of the institute of British Geographers 59:41-53.

Wallace, R.E. 1977. Profiles and ages of young fault scarps, north central Nevada. Geological Society of America Bulletin 88:1267-1281.

NZhou, A.C. et al. 2001. Numerical investigation of the angle of repose of monosized spheres. Physical Review E 64, 021301. (click on "view PDF" to read the entire article)