This text gives an overview of the main landslide field sites. It covers aspects of recent landslide research at the University of Wollongong.
Topics: An overview of the main landslide field sites in the 9th ICFL; Aspects of recent landslide research at the University of Wollongong; Infiltration of rainwater and slope failure; Landslide hazards and highway engineering in Central and Northern Jordan; El Niño 1997-98: Direct costs of damaging landslides in the San Francisco Bay region; Mass movement features in the vincinity of the town Sorbas, South-east Spain; The movements and the countermeasures of the Choja Landslide; Interest in landslide hazard information - Parallels between Kingston, Jamaica and the San Francisco Bay region, USA; Slide activity in quick clay related to pore water pressure and weather parameters; Old and recent landslides of Barranco de Tirajana basin, Gran Canaria, Spain.
1: Field trip workshop; 1: An overview of the main landslide field sites in the 9th ICFL; 2: Conference; 2: Aspects of recent landslide research at the University of Wollongong; 3: Infiltration of rainwater and slope failure; 4: Landslide hazards and highway engineering in Central and Northem Jordan; 5: El Niño 1997-98: Direct costs of damaging landslides in the San Francisco Bay region; 6: Mass movement features in the vicinity of the town of Sorbas, South-east Spain; 7: The movements and the countermeasures of the 'Choja Landslide'; 8: Interest in landslide hazard information - Parallels between Kingston, Jamaica and the San Francisco Bay region, USA; 9: Slide activity in quick clay related to pore water pressure and weather parameters; 10: Old and recent landslides of the Barranco de Tirajana basin, Gran Canaria, Spain; 11: Tracking active landslide creep and its response to El Niño and local seismicity: A case history from the Penitencia Creek landslide, Santa Clara County, California, USA; 12: Variety of landslides in Poland, and their possible dependence on neogeodynamics; 13: Slope stability analysis of landslides masses of different shapes; 14: Small-scale mass movement failures in Early to Mid Pleistocene fluvial deposits in the Vera Basin, South-east Spain; 15: Landslide activity and land utilisation at the high river bank zones; 16: Scenic drive landslide, San Mateo County, Califomia, triggered by El Niño