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A 5years continuing study of the regional distribution of mass movements in the eastern Styrian Basin in the Austrian alpine foreland indicates that fast mass movements develop preferably on slopes that showed creep processes before. The geotechnical explanation for this observation is that slopes, which experienced deformation by creep over a long period of time, already show a reduced safety factor for the displaced slope material. Therefore slope areas that have experienced deformation by creep are much more vulnerable to heavy precipitation events and evolve into fast moving slides and flows more common than slopes that have not experienced creep before.
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This study was co-funded by the provincial government of Burgenland.
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Leopold, P., Draganits, E., Heiss, G., Kovacs, E. (2013). A Geotechnical Explanation for the Transition from Creep to Slides in the Alpine Foreland. In: Margottini, C., Canuti, P., Sassa, K. (eds) Landslide Science and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31337-0_9
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