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Conference Paper: Migration And Expansion Of Deep Ground Dense Gas For Cause Of Large Rock Avalanches
Title | Migration And Expansion Of Deep Ground Dense Gas For Cause Of Large Rock Avalanches |
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Keywords | Natural gas Rock avalanche Landslide Rock slope Mountain hazard |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Publisher | Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum. |
Citation | Innovations in applied and theoretical rock mechanics: Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Rock Mechanics, Montréal, Canada, May 10-13, 2015, v. 1, abstract no.106 (1-10) How to Cite? |
Abstract | Many large rock avalanches and/or landslides have occurred in mountainous regions around the world. Their occurrences are normally rapid and unexpected, which can cause disasters. They have been investigated extensively by many researchers and engineers since the 1903 Frank Slide on Turtle Mountain, Alberta, Canada. They are one of the most peculiar phenomena because the rock debris of more than one million m3 can move over the horizontal distances exceeding those expected from conventional friction physics. This paper presents a gas cause hypothesis responsible for the large rock avalanches. It is the migration and expansion of a certain amount of highly pressurized and dense natural gas mass from deep geological grounds into the mountainous rock mass slopes. The natural gas with high pressure and density can escape from the deep geological ground and flow through faults, weak zones and/or porous channels into the rock mass forming a mountainous slope. The rock mass forming the slope has the high tensile and compressive strength and can resist the initial loading of the gas mass migrated into and stored in their voids, pores, holes, gaps, openings, apertures and cavities. With time, more and more gas mass from deep ground can migrate into and stored in the slope rock mass. Eventually, the peak equilibrium of forces and deformation reaches. The expanding power of the gas in the slope rock mass would instantly and rapidly break, erupt and/or explode them. The compressed and dense gas mass would mix, flow and expand together with the broken rock debris mass and continue offering their remaining expanding powers to the moving and sliding debris mass. As a result, the rock debris of large volume can reach the runout distances exceeding those expected from the conventional friction physics. The gas would escape into the sky and the solid rock debris would remain on the ground spreading over large ground area. The 1903 Frank Slide is examined to show this gas cause and mechanism in mountainous regions. |
Description | Theme: Innovations in Applied and Theoretical Rock Mechanics Stream: Slope stability, landslides and surface mining: Modelling and Assessment of Slope Failure Mechanisms (Part I) |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/218313 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Yue, QZQ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-18T06:33:35Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-18T06:33:35Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Innovations in applied and theoretical rock mechanics: Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Rock Mechanics, Montréal, Canada, May 10-13, 2015, v. 1, abstract no.106 (1-10) | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781926872254 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/218313 | - |
dc.description | Theme: Innovations in Applied and Theoretical Rock Mechanics | - |
dc.description | Stream: Slope stability, landslides and surface mining: Modelling and Assessment of Slope Failure Mechanisms (Part I) | - |
dc.description.abstract | Many large rock avalanches and/or landslides have occurred in mountainous regions around the world. Their occurrences are normally rapid and unexpected, which can cause disasters. They have been investigated extensively by many researchers and engineers since the 1903 Frank Slide on Turtle Mountain, Alberta, Canada. They are one of the most peculiar phenomena because the rock debris of more than one million m3 can move over the horizontal distances exceeding those expected from conventional friction physics. This paper presents a gas cause hypothesis responsible for the large rock avalanches. It is the migration and expansion of a certain amount of highly pressurized and dense natural gas mass from deep geological grounds into the mountainous rock mass slopes. The natural gas with high pressure and density can escape from the deep geological ground and flow through faults, weak zones and/or porous channels into the rock mass forming a mountainous slope. The rock mass forming the slope has the high tensile and compressive strength and can resist the initial loading of the gas mass migrated into and stored in their voids, pores, holes, gaps, openings, apertures and cavities. With time, more and more gas mass from deep ground can migrate into and stored in the slope rock mass. Eventually, the peak equilibrium of forces and deformation reaches. The expanding power of the gas in the slope rock mass would instantly and rapidly break, erupt and/or explode them. The compressed and dense gas mass would mix, flow and expand together with the broken rock debris mass and continue offering their remaining expanding powers to the moving and sliding debris mass. As a result, the rock debris of large volume can reach the runout distances exceeding those expected from the conventional friction physics. The gas would escape into the sky and the solid rock debris would remain on the ground spreading over large ground area. The 1903 Frank Slide is examined to show this gas cause and mechanism in mountainous regions. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Congress of Rock Mechanics (ISRM Congress 2015) | - |
dc.subject | Natural gas | - |
dc.subject | Rock avalanche | - |
dc.subject | Landslide | - |
dc.subject | Rock slope | - |
dc.subject | Mountain hazard | - |
dc.title | Migration And Expansion Of Deep Ground Dense Gas For Cause Of Large Rock Avalanches | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Yue, QZQ: yueqzq@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Yue, QZQ=rp00209 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 253472 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 1 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Westmount | - |