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dc.contributor.authorMoon, Vicki G.
dc.contributor.authorCunningham, Michael J.
dc.contributor.authorWyatt, Justin Burns
dc.contributor.authorLowe, David J.
dc.contributor.authorMorz, T.
dc.contributor.authorJorat, M.E.
dc.contributor.editorChin, C.Y.
dc.coverage.spatialConference held at Queenstown NZ
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-18T00:44:41Z
dc.date.available2013-11-21
dc.date.available2014-09-18T00:44:41Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationIn Chin, T.Y. (Ed.), Hanging by a thread – lifelines, infrastructure, and natural disasters, Proceedings 19th New Zealand Geotechnical Society (NZGS) Geotechnical Symposium, Queenstown (20-23 November 2013), Vol 38, Issue 1, pp. 537-544.
dc.identifier.issn0111-9532
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/8825
dc.description.abstractIn the Tauranga region sensitive soil failures commonly occur after heavy rainfall events, causing considerable infrastructure damage. Several notable landslides include a large failure at Bramley Drive, Omokoroa in 1979, the Ruahihi Canal collapse in 1981, and numerous landslides in May 2005; recently the Bramley Drive scarp was reactivated in 2011. These failures are associated with materials loosely classified as the Pahoia Tephras - a mixture of rhyolitic pyroclastic deposits of approximately 1 Ma. The common link with extreme rainfall events suggests a pore water pressure control on the initiation of these failures. Recent research on the structure of the soils shows a dominance of halloysite clay minerals packed loosely in arrangements with high porosity (51 – 77 %), but with almost entirely micropores. This leads us to conclude that the permeability is very low, and the materials remain continuously wet. The formation of halloysite is encouraged by a wet environment with no episodes of drying, supporting this assumption. A high-resolution CPT trace at Bramley Drive indicates induced pore water pressures rising steadily to a peak at approximately 25 m depth; this depth coincides with the base of the landslide scarp. We infer that elevated pore water pressures develop within this single, thick aquifer, triggering failure through reduced effective stresses. The inactive halloysite clay mineral results in low plasticity indices (13 – 44 %) and hence high liquidity indices (1.2 – 2.4) due to the saturated pore space; remoulding following failure is sudden and dramatic and results in large debris runout distances.
dc.format.extent537 - 544 (8)
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dc.publisherCRC Press
dc.rightsCopyright 2013 The Authors
dc.subjectsensitive soil
dc.subjectTauranga
dc.subjecthalloysite
dc.subjectpore water pressure
dc.titleLandslides in sensitive soils, Tauranga, New Zealand.
dc.typeConference Contribution
dc.relation.isPartOfProceedings 19th NZGS Geotechnical Society Symposium. Hanging by a Thread
pubs.begin-page537en_NZ
pubs.elements-id23574
pubs.end-page544en_NZ
pubs.finish-date2013-11-23
pubs.start-date2013-11-21
pubs.volumeVol 38, Issue 1


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