Climate Change Data Portal
| DOI | 10.1007/s11069-021-04954-9 |
| Rockfall susceptibility and runout in the Valley of the Kings | |
| Marija L.; Martin Z.; Jordan A.; Matthew P. | |
| 发表日期 | 2021 |
| ISSN | 0921030X |
| 英文摘要 | The UNESCO world heritage site Valley of the Kings or Wadi el-Moluk (وادي الملوك) near Luxor, Egypt, hosts unique burial places of Egyptian kings and royals from the New Kingdom (c. 1539–1075 BCE) and attracts about 0.5 to 2 million tourists per year. Very steep to subvertical cliffs of Thebes Limestone surround the Valley of the Kings. The rock mass is cut by frequent joints and faults making the cliff walls prone to rockfalls. However, only few rockfall debris are found in the valley, likely due to natural remobilisation by flood events and artificial clearings and excavation works that rendered the natural debris cover over the millennia. This work focuses on rockfall susceptibility and runout and makes use of new high-resolution landscape surface models utilising terrestrial laser scanning. We investigated rockfall release areas by exploring rock mass fractures at 23 cliff segments and analysed the kinematics of potential rockfalls. Furthermore, we estimated potential rockfall deposition areas with CONEFALL supported by nine numerical simulations of single rockfall events using Rockyfor3D. We found that nearly 4500 m2 (26%) of the public walking paths and 24 out of 64 tomb entrance areas locate within potential rockfall runout zones. © 2021, The Author(s). |
| 关键词 | 3D rockfall modellingCone fall analysisLimestone cliffsRock fracturesTerrestrial laser scanningUNESCO world heritage site |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 来源期刊 | Natural Hazards
 |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/206412 |
| 作者单位 | Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland; Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marija L.,Martin Z.,Jordan A.,et al. Rockfall susceptibility and runout in the Valley of the Kings[J],2021. |
| APA | Marija L.,Martin Z.,Jordan A.,&Matthew P..(2021).Rockfall susceptibility and runout in the Valley of the Kings.Natural Hazards. |
| MLA | Marija L.,et al."Rockfall susceptibility and runout in the Valley of the Kings".Natural Hazards (2021). |
| 条目包含的文件 | 条目无相关文件。 | |||||
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
