Recent Publications
This list features recent Landslide Program publications, searchable by Landslide Program authors. Open File Reports and and Non-USGS publications are listed for the last 5 years only.
For a more comprehensive, searchable list of publications, please see theLandslide Bibliographic Search. (please note, this page is under construction)
- (2009) Wieczorek, G.F., Eaton, L.S., Morgan, B.A., Wooten, R.M., and Morrissey, M., 2009, An examination of selected historical rainfall-induced debris-flow events within the central and southern Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009–1155, 25 p., available only online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1155.
- (2008) Baum, R. L., Galloway, D. L., and Harp, E. L., in, Landslide and land subsidence hazards to pipelines , USGS Open-file report 2008-1164, also: in, Landslide Investigation Methods, Chapter 3, p. 107-192, Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline Research Council International, and DGH Consulting Inc.
- (2007) Wieczorek, G. F., Snyder, J. B., Borchers, J. W., and Reichenbach, P., Staircase Falls Rockfall on December 26, 2003, and geologic hazards at Curry Village, Yosemite National Park, California , U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1378, 14 p.
- (2004) Assessment of Late Pleistocene to Recent Climate-Induced Vegetation Changes in and near Shenandoah National Park (Blue Ridge Province, VA), Litwin, R. J., Morgan, B. A., Eaton, L. S. and Wieczorek, G. F., 2004, U.S. Geological Survey Open-file report, 72 p.
- (2008) Wieczorek, G.F., Morgan, B.A., Debris-flow hazards within the Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2008-3070, 4p.
- (2009) Wieczorek, G.F., and J. B. Snyder, Monitoring Slope Movements, in, Young, R., and Norby, L., Geological Monitoring, Geological Soceity of America, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 245 - 271
- (2008) Wieczorek, G.F., Stock, G.M., Reichenbach, P., Snyder, J.B., Borchers, J.W., and Godt, J.W., 2008, Investigation and hazard assessment of the 2003 and 2007 Staircase Falls rock falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, European Geophysics Union, v. 8, p. 421-432.
- (2008) Wieczorek, Gerald F. and Leahy, P. Patrick, 2008, Landslide hazard mitigation in North America: Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, V. XIV, no. 2, May 2008, p. 133-144.
- (2007) Wieczorek, G.F., Wilson, R.C., Ellen, S.D., Reid, M.E., and Jayko, A.S., Staircase Falls rockfall event and hazards at Curry Village, Yosemite National Park, California, Conference Presentations, 1st North American Landslide Conference, Vail, Colorado, AEG Special Publicstions No. 23, AEG Copyright 2007.
- (2007) Wieczorek, G.F., Snyder, J.b., Borchers, J..W., and Reichenbach, Paola, Staircase Falls Rockfall on December 26, 2003, and Geologic Hazards at Curry Village, Yosemite National Park, California, Conference Presentations, 1st North American Landslide Conference, Vail, Colorado, AEG Special Publication No. 23, AEG Copyright 2007, ISBN 978-0-975-4295-3-2, p. 1292-1301.
- (2007) Wieczorek, G.f., Geist, E.L., Motyka, R.J., and Jakokb, Matthias, Hazard assessment of the Tidal Inlet landslide and potential subsequent tsunami, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, Landslides, Springer-Verlag, V. 4, p. 205-215.
- (2007) Morrissey, M.M., Wieczorek, G.F., and Morgan, B.A., 2007, A Comparative Analysis of Simulated and Observed Landslide Locations Triggered by Hurricane Camille in Nelson County, Virginia, Hydrological Processes Journal, John Wiley and Sons, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/116332429/PDFSTART
- (2007) Hazard assessment of the Wieczorek, G.F., Geist, E.L., Motyka, R.J., and Jakob, Matthias,Tidal Inlet landslide and potential subsequent tsunami, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, Landslides, Springer-Verlag, v. 4, p. 205-215.
- (2007) Schuster, R.L., and L.M. Highland, 2007, Impacts of mass wasting on the natural Environment, Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, co-published by the Geolgoical Society of America (GSA) and the Association of Engineering Geologists, (AEG), Vol. XIII, No. 1, February, pp. 25-44.
- (2007) Schuster, R.L., and L.M. Highland, 2007, Impacts of mass wasting on the natural Environment, Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, co-published by the Geolgoical Society of America (GSA) and the Association of Engineering Geologists, (AEG), Vol. XIII, No. 1, February, pp. 25-44.
- (2006) Larsen,M.C., and Wieczorek, G.F., 2006, Geomorphic effects of large debris flows and flash floods, northern Venezuela, 1999, Tropical Geomorphology with Special Reference to South America, Latrubesse, Edgardo, ed., Zeitschrift fur Geomophologie, Suppl. vol. 145, p. 147-175
- (2006) Keefer, David K., Wartman, Joseph, Navarro Ochoa, Carlos, Rodriguez-Marek, Adrian, and Wieczorek, Gerald F., 2006, Landslides caused by the M 7.6 Tecoman, Mexico earthquake of January 21, 2003, Engineering Geology, 86 (2006), p. 183-197
- (2006) Wieczorek, G.F., Eaton, L.S., Yanosky, T.M., and Turner, E.J., 2006, Landslides, Springer, v.3, n. 2, p. 95-106.
- (2005) Calibration of numerical models for small debris flows in Yosemite Valley, California, USA, Bertolo, P., and Wieczorek, G.F., 2005, European Geophysical Union-Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, v. 5, p. 993-1001.
- (2005) Wieczorek, G.F., Gori, P.L., and Highland, L.M., 2005, Reducing landslide hazards and risk in the United States: The role of the U.S. Geological Survey, in, Glade, T., Anderson, M., and Crozier, M.J., eds.,Landslide Hazard and Risk, John Wiley and sons, Ltd., p. 351-376.
- (2005) Wieczorek, G.F., and Glade, Thomas, 2005, Climatic Factors Influencing Occurrence of Debris Flows, in, Jakob, Matthias and Hungr, Oldrich, eds., Debris-flow Hazards and Related Phenomena, Praxis, Springer, Chichester, UK, Ch. 14, p. 325-362.
- (2005) Savage, W.Z., and Baum, R.L., 2005, Instability of steep slopes, Chapter 4 in Jakob, M. and Hungr, O., Debris Flow and Debris Avalanches-A Practically Oriented Overview of the State of the Art: Chichester, U.K., Praxis Publishing House p. 53-79.
- (2004) Transient hazard model using radar data for predicting debris flows in Madison County, Virginia, Morrissey, M., Wieczorek, G., and Morgan, B., 2004, Transient hazard model using radar data for predicting debris flows in Madison, County, Virginia: Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, v. X, n. 4, p. 285-296.
- (2004) Wieczorek, G.F., Mossa, G.S., Morgan, B.A., 2004, Regional debris-flow distribution and preliminary risk assessment from severe storm events in the Appalachian Blue Ridge Province, USA: Landslides, v. 1, p. 53-59 (DOI 10.1007/s10346-003-0003-z)
- (2007) Wieczorek, G.F., Geist, E.L., Jakob, M., Zirnheld, S.L., Boyce, E., Motyka, R.J., and Burns, P., Landslide-induced wave hazard assessment--Tidal Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, Wieczorek, G.F., Geist, E.L., Jakob, M., Zirnheld, S.L., Boyce, E., Motyka, R.J., and Burns, P., 2007, in, Piatt, J.F., and Gende, S.M., eds., Proceedings of the Fourth Glacier Bay Science Symposium, October 26-28, 2004, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5047, p. 165-167.
