Landslides have occurred throughout the Holocene geologic epoch and they continue to occur in the Peace River Lowlands of Alberta and British Columbia. This study was conducted to provide an understanding of the processes and extents of one such landslide situated on a major slope at the Town of Peace River, Alberta by means of geophysical techniques with the aim of reducing the geohazard risk to lives and infrastructures. The geophysical characterization involved the acquisition, processing, and joint interpretation of seismic reflection, seismic refraction tomography, vertical seismic profile, and electrical resistivity tomography datasets, thereby providing important information about the subsurface geometry of the landslide, insights into the material properties of the unstable mass in contrast to that of the stable rock, and possible causes of the landslide. This contribution shows that putting considerable efforts into the acquisition and processing of geophysical datasets can yield valuable functional details. / Geophysics
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1291 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Ogunsuyi, Oluwafemi |
| Contributors | Schmitt, Douglas R. (Physics), Sacchi, Mauricio D. (Physics), Beach, Kevin (Physics), Martin, C. Derek (Civil and Environmental Engineering) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 6118756 bytes, application/pdf |
| Relation | Ogunsuyi, F. O., and D. R. Schmitt, in press 2010, Integrating seismic velocity tomograms and seismic imaging: application to the study of a glacially buried valley, in R. Miller, J. Bradford, and K. Holliger, eds., Near surface seismology and ground penetrating radar: Society Exploration Geophysicists. http://segdl.org/ebooks/ |
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