Large rock slope failures are temporal processes which act to modify the landscape after glacial retreat. The slope failure process often shows a lag time of thousands of years after deglaciation, with multiple failure events possible. While global datasets constrain this lag time from extensive mapping and dating of paraglacial rock avalanches, the timeline is poorly refined in northern Norway. We ...

Mountain slopes in periglacial environments are affected by frost- and gravity-driven processes that shape the landscape. Both rock glaciers and rockslides have been intensively inventoried worldwide. Although most inventories are traditionally based on morphologic criteria, kinematic approaches based on satellite remote sensing have more recently been used to identify moving landforms at the regional ...

Gravitational forcing of oversteepened rock mass leads to progressive failure, including rupture, creeping, sliding and eventual avalanching of the unstable mass. As the point of rupture initiation typically follows pre-existing structural discontinuities within the rock mass, understanding the structural setting of slopes is necessary for an accurate characterisation of the hazards and estimation ...