Landslide Photo Collections

Searchable USGS Photo and Multimedia Archive with Ordering Information

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    Tiny Town, CO, 1997
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  • The Slumgullion landslide is located about 5 km southwest of Lake City in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The landslide is about 6 km long and ranges in elevation from about 2750 to 3650 m. The active part of the landslide is about 3.5 km long and ranges in elevation from about 2950 to 3650 m. For more information, please see a U.S. Geological Survey report online: http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/b2130/cover.htm
    Slumgullion, CO
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    Redstone, Carbondale, Marble Colorado Debris Flows/mudslides--July 31, and August 19, 2010.
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  • Just after midnight, on March 8, 2010, a large rockfall incident hit I-70 in Glenwood Canyon, near mile marker 125 just west of Hanging Lake Tunnel, near the city of Glenwood Springs.
    Glenwood Canyon, near Glenwood Springs, CO - March 2010
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    Glenwood Canyon, CO, 2003
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    Georgetown, CO, 1999
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  • Aerial view of debris flows which flowed onto the tracks used by the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, operating out of Durango, Colorado. The debris flows occurred on July 26, 2010. The photos in this series were taken by zipline company personnel, as they zipped over the area. Photos courtesy of Tall Timber Resort, Colorado
    Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (Colorado) Debris Flows, July 26, 2010
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  • For more information on debris flows in burned areas, please see: http://landslides.usgs.gov/research/wildfire/activities.php
    Debris Flows in Wildfire-burned areas
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    Colorado Debris Flow, 2001
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  • As part of an effort to better understand initiation, erosion, and entrainment processes for runoff-initiated debris fl ows, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began monitoring four debris fl ow producing basins in central Colorado in 2004.
    Chalk Cliffs, Colorado Debris-flow Research Area
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  • A thunderstorm on the evening of Monday, July 22, 2002 caused debris flows in the canyons of Cottonwood Creek and Chalk Creek, west and southwest of Buena Vista, Colorado. All of the flows initiated on hillslopes underlain by decomposed granitic rocks. Along Cottonwood Creek, debris flows crossed Chaffee County Road 306 in eleven places and trapped several motorists. Joe Nelson of Chaffee County Road and Bridge Department stimated that 20,000 m3 of mud was deposited on and near County Road 306. For more information see online description: http://landslides.usgs.gov/recent/archives/2002buenavista.php
    Buena Vista, CO, 2002
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  • On the evening of July 21, 2007, a slow-moving thunderstorm triggered about 45 debris flows on steep mountainsides near the community of Alpine, Colorado. Most of the debris flows were initiated by surface-water runoff that eroded and entrained loose sediment in previously existing channels. For more information and additional photos, please see a U.S. Geological Survey report online: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1237/pdf/OF2007-1237.pdf
    Alpine, Colorado, 2007 Debris Flow Event
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