Title of the talk: Modeling the processes underlying large creeping rock slope failures
Large rock slope failures usually move slowly for a long time before eventually evolving into fast collapses, affect landscape evolution, and threaten lives and infrastructures. Field evidence, geochronological data and deformation monitoring suggest that these phenomena evolve with a creeping style, whose underlying mechanisms must be correctly captured to anticipate slope evolution to collapse, yet are not completely understood. The lack of subsurface and hydrological data, the long slope lifecycle and slow displacement rates, and the underestimation of geological controls often lead to rely on oversimplified or poorly-constrained models. We suggest that an integrated approach, leveraging on field geological data, remote sensing, laboratory experiments and time-dependent numerical models can capture the entire lifecycle of large rock slopes within one progressive failure framework.
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