Tectonic control of complex slope failures in the Ameka River Valley (Lower Gibe Area, central Ethiopia): Implications foralley landslide formation

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.03.020" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.03.020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tectonic control of complex slope failures in the Ameka River Valley (Lower Gibe Area, central Ethiopia): Implications foralley landslide formation

Original language description

Even though major faults represent important landslide controlling factors, the role the tectonic setting in actively spreading rifts plays in the development of large complex landslides is seldom discussed. The Ameka landslide is located on the eastern scarp of the Gibe Gorge, approximately 45 km to the west of the Main Ethiopian Rift. Investigation of the complex landslide failures required a combination of satellite and airborne data-based geomorphology, field survey complemented with structural analysis, radiocarbon geochronology and vertical electric sounding. The obtained observations confirmed the multiphase evolution of the landslide. Apart from climatic and lithological conditions, the main triggering factor of the Ameka complex landslide is the tectonic development of this area. The ~E–W extension along the Main Ethiopian Rift is associated with the formation of numerous parallel normal faults, such as the Gibe Gorge fault and the almost perpendicular scissor faults. The geometry of the slid blocks of coherent lithology inherited the original tectonic framework, suggesting the crucial role of tectonics in the fragmentation of the compact rock-masses, and the origin and development of the Ameka complex landslide. The main scarps are also parallel to the principal tectonic features. Such parallel tectonic frameworks display clear links between the extension of the Main Ethiopian Rift and the tectonic development of the landslide area. The Ameka complex landslide developed in several episodes over thousands of years. According to the radiocarbon data, the last of the larger displaced blocks (representing only 2% of the total area) most likely slid down in the seventh century AD. The main scarps, namely the high scarps in the western part, are unstable over the long term and toppling and falling-type slope movements can be expected here in the future.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geomorphology

ISSN

0169-555X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

288

Issue of the periodical within the volume

July

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

175-187

UT code for WoS article

000405056000012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85017106037