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- Description:
- This dataset contains code used to generate and the results of 2D numerical modeling simulations of ambient resonance in damaged rock slopes. All simulations were performed using the Universal Distinct Element Code (UDEC) version 7.0. We simulated progressive damage for three different landslide types: slab toppling, flexural toppling, and planar sliding. For each scenario we simulated several stages of progressive rock slope damage. Subsequently, we recorded the resonance response of the rock slope at each stage by measuring x-direction velocity at one or more measuring points throughout the model.
- Subject:
- landslides, mathematical modeling, slope stability, and engineering geology
- Creator:
- Moore, Jeffrey R. and Jensen, Erin K.
- Owner:
- Jeff Moore
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Utah, Utah, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01 to 2023-10-18
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S50d-j662-kdt9
- Description:
- This dataset contains GIS map data and monitoring datasets collected between 2018 and 2022 at the Courthouse Mesa rock slope instability near Moab, Utah. Map data consist of an orthophoto, a polyline shapefile delineating mapped surficial cracks, and a point shapefile showing the locations of crack width monitoring points (M1–M5) and a vibrating wire crackmeter. Monitoring data include four years of continuous crack aperture measurements from the crackmeter, periodic crack width measurements from M1–M5, and three sets of air temperature measurements recorded between 2018 and 2022. Air temperatures were measured at the surface and inside the crack at several depths throughout the monitoring period.
- Subject:
- slope stability, engineering geology, geomorphology, and landslides
- Creator:
- Moore, Jeffrey R., Jensen, Erin K., Finnegan, Riley, and Geimer, Paul R.
- Owner:
- Erin Jensen
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Moab, Utah, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 10/27/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01 to 2022-12-31
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S50d-e0es-913n
- Description:
- This dataset accompanies the research article entitled, "Ground Motion Amplification at Natural Rock Arches in the Colorado Plateau ," where we analyzed 13 sandstone arches in Utah, computing site-to-reference spectral amplitude ratios from continuous ambient seismic data and comparing these to spectral ratios during earthquakes and teleseismic activity. Included in this dataset are the arch vibration data.
- Keyword:
- earthquakes, geology, rock arches, spectral amplification , environmental seismology, and Utah
- Subject:
- seismology and geology
- Creator:
- Bessette-Kirton, Erin K., Finnegan, Riley, Dzubay, Alex, Moore, Jeffrey R., and Geimer, Paul R.
- Owner:
- Riley Finnegan
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Utah, Utah, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/07/2022
- Date Modified:
- 12/06/2023
- Date Created:
- 2015–01-01 to 2021-12-31
- License:
- CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Description:
- This dataset accompanies the research article entitled, "Ambient vibration modal analysis of natural rock towers and fins," where we investigate the ambient vibrations of 14 rock rowers and perform modal analysis on 3D models of the landforms. Included are the vibration data and 3D models.
- Keyword:
- modal analysis, geology, Utah, photogrammetry, sandstone, conglomerate, resonance, environmental seismology, and rock towers
- Subject:
- geology and seismology
- Creator:
- Bodtker, Jackson, Bessette-Kirton, Erin K., Dzubay, Alex, Vollinger, Kathryn, Geimer, Paul R., Moore, Jeffrey R., and Finnegan, Riley
- Owner:
- BRANDON PATTERSON
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Utah, Utah, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/07/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01 to 2021-09-17
- License:
- CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S50D-N12Q-SA1Z
- Description:
- This dataset accompanies the research article entitled, "Vibration of Natural Rock Arches and Towers Excited by Helicopter-Sourced Infrasound," where we investigate the vibration response of seven landforms to helicopter-sourced infrasound during controlled flight. Included are time-series vibration data of the landforms and nearby ground during and before helicopter flight, time-series infrasound data, 3D photogrammetry models of the studied landforms, and GPS data from the helicopter.
- Keyword:
- human environmental impacts, natural arches, helicopters, vibration response, natural towers, and rock landforms
- Subject:
- Geology, Environmental Seismology, and Geophysics
- Creator:
- Finnegan, Riley, Moore, Jeffrey R., and Geimer, Paul R.
- Owner:
- Riley Finnegan
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Utah, Utah, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2024
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
- License:
- CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S50D-41SW-THMA
- Description:
- Subglacial water pressures influence groundwater conditions in proximal alpine valley rock slopes, varying with glacier advance and retreat in parallel with changing ice thickness. Fluctuating groundwater pressures in turn increase or reduce effective joint normal stresses, affecting the yield strength of discontinuities. Here we extend simplified assumptions of glacial debuttressing to investigate how glacier loading cycles together with changing groundwater pressures generate rock slope damage and prepare future slope instabilities. Using hydromechanical coupled numerical models closely based on the Aletsch Glacier valley in Switzerland, we simulate Late Pleistocene and Holocene glacier loading cycles including long-term and annual groundwater fluctuations. Measurements of transient subglacial water pressures from ice boreholes in the Aletsch Glacier ablation area, as well as continuous monitoring of bedrock deformation from permanent GNSS stations helps verify our model assumptions. While purely mechanical glacier loading cycles create only limited rock slope damage in our models, introducing a fluctuating groundwater table generates substantial new fracturing. Superposed annual groundwater cycles increase predicted damage. The cumulative effects are capable of destabilizing the eastern valley flank of our model in toppling-mode failure, similar to field observations of active landslide geometry and kinematics. We find that hydromechanical fatigue is most effective acting in combination with long-term loading and unloading of the slope during glacial cycles. Our results demonstrate that hydromechanical stresses associated with glacial cycles are capable of generating substantial rock slope damage and represent a key preparatory factor for paraglacial slope instabilities.
- Keyword:
- Aletsch Glacier, boreholes, numerical models, subglacial water pressure, Switzerland, Late Pleistocene, Holocene, ground water, and geology
- Subject:
- Geology
- Creator:
- Moore, Jeffrey R., Loew, Simon, Limpach, Philippe, Gischig, Valentin, Grämiger, Lorenz, and Funk, Martin
- Owner:
- Jeff Moore
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Aletsch Glacier, Valais, Switzerland
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2020
- Date Modified:
- 10/29/2024
- Date Created:
- Borehole P1 2013-07-12 09:28:09 to 2014-08-08 09:11:14 and Borehole P2: 2013-07-16 05:00:03 to 2014-08-08 22:10:44
- License:
- CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S50D-A50H-3TE4