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Progressive shear-surface development in cohesive materials; implications for landslide behaviour (2014)
Journal Article

The aim of this study was to investigate mechanisms of progressive shear surface development using a series of specialised triaxial cell tests. Intact and remoulded samples of Gault Clay from the Ventnor Undercliff on the Isle of Wight in southern En... Read More about Progressive shear-surface development in cohesive materials; implications for landslide behaviour.

Are microseismic ground displacements a significant geomorphic agent? (2014)
Journal Article

This paper considers the role that microseismic ground displacements may play in fracturing rock via cyclic loading and subcritical crack growth. Using a coastal rock cliff as a case study, we firstly undertake a literature review to define the spati... Read More about Are microseismic ground displacements a significant geomorphic agent?.

Coastal cliff-top ground motions as proxies for environmental processes (2013)
Journal Article

A two-year dataset of coastal cliff microseismic ground motions is used to explore energy transfer to a cliff. The long-term dataset enables us to characterise cliff motion responses to a wide range of environmental processes and examine whether shor... Read More about Coastal cliff-top ground motions as proxies for environmental processes.

A risk society? Environmental hazards, risk and resilience in the later Middle Ages in Europe (2013)
Journal Article

Modern society is said to have restructured in reaction to contemporary hazards with the aim of improving its management of risk. This implies that pre-industrial societies were somehow fundamentally different. In this paper, we challenge that hypoth... Read More about A risk society? Environmental hazards, risk and resilience in the later Middle Ages in Europe.

Coastline retreat via progressive failure of rocky coastal cliffs (2013)
Journal Article

Despite much research on the myriad processes that erode rocky coastal cliffs, accurately predicting the nature, location, and timing of coastline retreat remains challenging, and is confounded by the apparently episodic nature of cliff failure. The... Read More about Coastline retreat via progressive failure of rocky coastal cliffs.

Modelling the effects of sediment compaction on salt marsh reconstructions of recent sea-level rise (2012)
Journal Article

This paper quantifies the potential influence of sediment compaction on the magnitude of nineteenth and twentieth century sea-level rise, as reconstructed from salt marsh sediments. We firstly develop a database of the physical and compression proper... Read More about Modelling the effects of sediment compaction on salt marsh reconstructions of recent sea-level rise.

Modeling cliff erosion using negative power law scaling of rockfalls. (2012)
Journal Article

Mass wasting triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is greater than orogenic growth. (2011)
Journal Article

Quantifying the Controls and Influence of Tide and Wave Impacts on Coastal Rock Cliff Erosion. (2011)
Journal Article

Compression behaviour of minerogenic low energy intertidal sediments (2011)
Journal Article

Existing geotechnical approaches that describe volumetric changes in intertidal sediments in response to applied vertical effective stresses are limited by a lack of empirical research into their one-dimensional compression behaviour. In this paper w... Read More about Compression behaviour of minerogenic low energy intertidal sediments.

The Continental Shelf and Slope (2010)
Book Chapter

Landslide Hazards (2010)
Book Chapter

Erosional processes in the hard rock coastal cliffs at Staithes, North Yorkshire (2010)
Journal Article

The processes of change on near-vertical coastal cliffs have been quantified using terrestrial photogrammetry and laser scanning. The approach allows discrete rockfall geometry to be measured, and source located in three dimensions. This paper presen... Read More about Erosional processes in the hard rock coastal cliffs at Staithes, North Yorkshire.

The use of pore pressure reinflation testing in landslide management in Hong Kong (2009)
Journal Article

Risk management for natural terrain landslides requires understanding of the complex underlying processes during the development of failure. This paper utilizes a process approach based upon triaxial testing using the field stress path to examine the... Read More about The use of pore pressure reinflation testing in landslide management in Hong Kong.

Lost in Translation (2009)
Journal Article

On the impact of urban landslides (2009)
Book Chapter

Although considerable attention has been paid to the issue of urban landslides in the literature since Alexander's 1989 paper on the topic, few attempts have been made to quantify their importance. In this paper, such an attempt is made, based upon g... Read More about On the impact of urban landslides.

A first impression of the 12th May 2008 Sichuan Earthquake (2008)
Journal Article

Patterns of precursory rockfall prior to slope failure (2007)
Journal Article

In this paper we examine data generated using high-resolution three-dimensional laser scanning monitoring of coastal rock cliffs. These data are used to identify spatial and temporal patterns in rockfall activity behavior prior to slope failure. Anal... Read More about Patterns of precursory rockfall prior to slope failure.

Trends in landslide occurence in Nepal (2007)
Journal Article

Nepal is a mountainous, less developed kingdom that straddles the boundary between the Indian and Himalayan tectonic plates. In Nepal, landslides represent a major constraint on development, causing high levels of economic loss and substantial number... Read More about Trends in landslide occurence in Nepal.

Detecting slope deformation using two-pass differential interferometry: Implications for landslide studies on Earth and other planetary bodies (2006)
Journal Article

Landslide features have been identified on Earth and the Moon, Mars, Venus, as well on the Jovian moons. By focusing on a terrestrial landslide complex we test the operational parameters of RADARSAT-1 and the use of two-pass differential interferomet... Read More about Detecting slope deformation using two-pass differential interferometry: Implications for landslide studies on Earth and other planetary bodies.