https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124903003
A landslide granular phase transition
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Laboratoire Ondes et Matiére d’Aquitaine (LOMA), 351 cours de la libération, 33405 Talence, France
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University Grenoble-Alpes, INRAE, UR ETNA, 2 rue de la Papeterie BP 76, F-38402 St-Martin-d’Hères, France
* e-mail: rory.cerbus@u-bordeaux.fr
** e-mail: thierry.faug@inrae.fr
*** e-mail: hamid.kellay@u-bordeaux.fr
Published online: 7 June 2021
Landslides appear in many different forms and sizes, from devastating debris flows to overly optimistic sand castles. A familiar and well-documented feature of all landslides is the positive correlation between volume and landslide runout. Larger landslides have a greater potential to reach farther. Here we explore the low volume limit and find a surprising negative correlation between volume and landslide runout. A decrease in volume leads to an increase in runout. In a series of experiments we systematically vary the landslide volume to reveal a transition between these two regimes.
A video is available at https://doi.org/10.48448/9wzj-5n94
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