Ecosystem carbon emissions from 2015 forest fires in interior Alaska by Christopher Potter

“…Conclusions Combined with nearly unprecedented forest areas severely burned in the Interior region of Alaska in 2015, total ecosystem fire-related losses of carbon to the atmosphere exceeded most previous estimates for the state, owing mainly to inclusion of potential “mass wasting” and decomposition in the mineral soil carbon layer in the 2 years following these forest fires.…”
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Submarine Paleoseismology Along Populated Transform Boundaries: The Enriquillo-Plantain-Garden Fault, Canal du Sud, Haiti, and the North Anatolian Fault, Marmara Sea, Turkey by Cecilia McHugh, Leonardo Seeber, Marie-Helene Courmier, Matthew Hornbach

“…This radioisotope, with a half-life of 24 days, tracked mass wasting, turbidites, turbidite-homogenite units, and a sediment plume that remained in the water column for at least two months after the earthquake. …”
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A seismic tomography, gravity, and flexure study of the crust and upper mantle structure across the Hawaiian Ridge: 2. Ka'ena by Dunn, RA, Watts, AB, Xu, C, Shillington, DJ

“…A high-velocity and high-density core resides within the volcanic edifice, draped by alternating lava flows and mass wasting material. Beneath the edifice, upper mantle velocities are slightly higher than that of the surrounding mantle, and there is no evidence of extensive magmatic underplating of the crust. …”

Identification of Abandoned Logging Roads in Point Reyes National Seashore by William Wiskes, Leonhard Blesius, Ellen Hines

“…They can lead to altered hydrological regimes, excess erosion, and mass wasting events. These events can affect sediment budgets in streams, with negative consequences for anadromous fish populations. …”
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Slope mass rating and kinematic analysis of slopes along the national highway-58 near Jonk, Rishikesh, India by Tariq Siddique, M. Masroor Alam, M.E.A. Mondal, V. Vishal

“…Increasing population and construction of roads have led to destabilisation of slopes, thus leading to mass wasting and movement, further aggravation due to recent events of cloud bursts and unprecedented flash floods. …”
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Changes in Crater Morphology Associated With Volcanic Activity at Telica Volcano, Nicaragua by Catherine Hanagan, Peter C. La Femina, Mel Rodgers

“…However, small spatiotemporal morphologic change related to background mass wasting and low‐level explosive activity has not been well quantified in volcanic craters. …”
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Rock slope failure preparation paced by total crack boundary length by Sophie Lagarde, Michael Dietze, Conny Hammer, Martin Zeckra, Anne Voigtländer, Luc Illien, Anne Schöpa, Jacob Hirschberg, Arnaud Burtin, Niels Hovius, Jens M. Turowski

“…Abstract Gravitational mass wasting prediction requires understanding of the factors controlling failure. …”
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Engineering geological characteristics and failure mechanics of Jure rock avalanche, Nepal by Suman Panthee, Suman Dulal, Vishnu Himanshu Ratnam Pandey, Vikas Yadav, Prakash Kumar Singh, Ashutosh Kainthola

“…To minimize future losses, it is essential to investigate the engineering geological causative factors and mechanism of these mass wasting events. Study area The present work is aimed at assessing the failure mechanism of the disastrous 2014 Jure rock avalanche along Araniko Highway, Northern Nepal. …”
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Tectonic Influences on Trench Slope Basin Development via Structural Restoration Along the Outer Nankai Accretionary Prism, Southwest Japan by J. K. Lackey, C. A. Regalla, G. F. Moore

“…This differential motion explains the occurrences of various mass wasting events, and lateral differences in trench slope basin geometry within the study area.…”
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Debris flood hazard documentation and mitigation on the Tilcara alluvial fan (Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy province, North-West Argentina) by G. Marcato, G. Bossi, F. Rivelli, L. Borgatti

“…For some decades, mass wasting processes such as landslides and debris floods have been threatening villages and transportation routes in the Rio Grande Valley, named Quebrada de Humauhuaca. …”
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A Channel Network Model for Sediment Dynamics Over Watershed Management Time Scales by Claire Beveridge, Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Christina Bandaragoda, Allison M. Pfeiffer

“…The model is driven by streamflow from a physically based hydrology model and hillslope sediment supply from a stochastic mass wasting algorithm. For each daily time step, segment‐scale sediment mass balance is computed using bedload and suspended load transport equations. …”
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Monitoring Earthquake-Damaged Vegetation after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in the Mountainous River Basins, Dujiangyan County by Huaizhen Zhang, Xiaomeng Wang, Jianrong Fan, Tianhe Chi, Shun Yang, Ling Peng

“…This recovery vegetation improves the resistance of slopes to both surficial erosion and mass wasting. We introduce a probabilistic approach to determining the relationships between damaged vegetation and slope materials’ stability, and model the sediment and flow (hydrological) connectivity index to detect the hydrological changes in a given river basin, using the multi-temporal (1994–2014) remote-sensing images to monitor the vegetation recovery processes. …”
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Geomorphological and hydrological controls on sediment export in earthquake-affected catchments in the Nepal Himalaya by E. L. S. Graf, H. D. Sinclair, M. Attal, B. Gailleton, B. R. Adhikari, B. R. Baral

“…<p>Large earthquakes can contribute to mountain growth by building topography but also contribute to mass removal from mountain ranges through widespread mass wasting. On annual to decadal or centennial timescales, large earthquakes also have the potential to significantly alter fluvial sediment dynamics if a significant volume of the sediment generated reaches the fluvial network. …”
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Airborne geophysical mapping as an innovative methodology for landslide investigation: evaluation of results from the Gschliefgraben landslide, Austria by R. Supper, I. Baroň, D. Ottowitz, K. Motschka, S. Gruber, E. Winkler, B. Jochum, A. Römer

“…While the content of potassium and thorium in the shallow subsurface layer is expressively related to the lithological composition, the distribution of caesium is mainly determined by mass wasting processes.…”
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Mineralogical, Elemental, and Spatial Variability of Volcaniclastics in Fluvio‐Coastal‐Aeolian Sedimentary Systems and Their Insights for Mineral Sorting on Mars by Ignatius Argadestya, Abduljamiu O. Amao, Candice C. Bedford, Pantelis Soupios, Khalid Al‐Ramadan

“…Alteration modeling of Merapi samples favors a fluvial depositional environment rather than mass‐wasting from the crater rim for Gale crater rocks (i.e., Pahrump Hills, Hartmann's Valley, Karasburg, Sutton Island member) on Mars.…”
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Hill slope instability of Nainital City, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India by Nirvan Sah, Mohit Kumar, Rajeev Upadhyay, Som Dutt

“…Nainital City of Kumaun Lesser Himalaya is prone to mass wasting processes during monsoon season, which mischievously triggers the hill slope instability in this region. …”
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جيومورفولوجية الياردانج علي سطح الهضبة الجيرية بين وادي النيل ومنخفض الفرافرة by محمد عبدالمعتمد عبدالرسول عبداللاه عاشور

“…The current research studies in details a group of geomorphologic factors and processes that are involving in the formation and development of yardang landscape, Including aeolian abrasive roles, both physical and chemical weathering, and dynamic processes of mass wasting.…”
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Processing Framework for Landslide Detection Based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Intensity-Image Analysis by Shih-Yuan Lin, Cheng-Wei Lin, Stephan van Gasselt

“…We present an object-based image analysis (OBIA) approach to identify temporal changes in radar-intensity images and to locate land-cover changes caused by mass-wasting processes at small to large scales, such as landslides. …”
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HazMapper: a global open-source natural hazard mapping application in Google Earth Engine by C. M. Scheip, C. M. Scheip, K. W. Wegmann, K. W. Wegmann

“…<p>Modern satellite networks with rapid image acquisition cycles allow for near-real-time imaging of areas impacted by natural hazards such as mass wasting, flooding, and volcanic eruptions. Publicly accessible multi-spectral datasets (e.g., Landsat, Sentinel-2) are particularly helpful in analyzing the spatial extent of disturbances, however, the datasets are large and require intensive processing on high-powered computers by trained analysts. …”
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Comparisons of Dynamic Landslide Models on GIS Platforms by Yuming Wu, Aohua Tian, Hengxing Lan

“…The landslide type refers to several forms of mass wasting associated with a wide range of ground movements, which guides establishing dynamic models and numerical schemes on GIS platforms and helps us obtain results accurately.…”
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