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Geomorphologic and Structural Controls on Landslide Types in Nigeria

Author : Ogbonnaya Igwe

Published in: Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Complex rock-debris avalanches, debris flow, soils slip and earth slumps in Nigeria lead to the destruction of lives and resources worth several millions of dollars annually. While long travel landslides, which are almost always catastrophic, mostly occur on igneous and metamorphic terrains at the boundary of Nigeria and Cameroon, the south east sedimentary terrains are subject to deep and wide gullies resulting from aggressive erosion and slumping movements. Slope failures in the two regions are therefore distinctively different with research revealing that the differences are in geology, structural geometry, style of deformation, slope gradient and the volumes involved. At the Nigeria-Cameroon border, complex, rock-debris avalanches are found on steep dipping slopes, where slope parallel, basal sliding planes along foliation and lineation surfaces control failure and mobility of materials downslope.

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Metadata
Title
Geomorphologic and Structural Controls on Landslide Types in Nigeria
Author
Ogbonnaya Igwe
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-53484-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-53485-5

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53485-5_30