Bedrock landslides (in all their various guises) are responsible for eroding most of our hillslopes and for causing more damage per year than earthquakes and hurricanes combined. Understanding how these work and how they originate remains a significant challenge to earth scientists. We are tackling issues related to bedrock landslides from various points of view: from the development of algorithms to characterize landslide-landscapes as being largely storm-driven or seismically driven to understanding landslide statistics and hillslope evolution based on a physical experiments in dry kidney beans. And these investigations parallel field efforts in Colorado in which Thad Wasklewicz and his students are investigating the development and evolution of alpine talus cones.

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Landslides and Topography | Active Tectonics - Landscape Evolution | CERI & DES | University of Memphis