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Part 10. Part 10 DANGERS POSED BY VALLEY SIDE JOINTS.

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  1. Part 10 Part 10 DANGERS POSED BY VALLEY SIDE JOINTS

  2. In 1905 and 1936 a cliff detached itself at Loen Lake, Norway, falling into the blocked fjord. In 1936 the displacement wave carried across the fjord and destroyed the adjacent settlement, killing 73 people. 70% of rock slides occur during first fall freeze or spring thaw. The Loen Lake failures occurred along inclined valley-side joints

  3. VALLEY SIDE JOINTS • Valley side, sheet, and exfoliation joints all describe the same features • When the valley side is excavated new joints form beneath the free surface, due to unloading • This caused problems at Mammoth Pool dam site in California, shown here • Karl Terzaghi recommended placing the embankment fill, then grouting the joints before reservoir filing

  4. Valley-side joints are particularly treacherous because they are usually inclined at close to 45-Ø/2 degrees from vertical (around 60 degrees), which offers the least shear resistance to slippage.

  5. Catastrophic rockfall typical of steeply inclined bluffs with out-of-plane discontinuities. This example is from 6 Mile Wash in Marble Canyon, Arizona

  6. Fontenelle Dam came perilously close to failing catastrophically in Sept 1965 during its initial filling. Seepage emanated from the right abutment. The same failure mode befell Teton Dam 11 years later.

  7. FONTENELLE DAM • Seepage percolated along undiscovered valley-side joints (#7) in bedded sedimentary rocks at position #8 • 8 lines of grout holes were then drilled and filled with 203,500 sacks of cement

  8. The Camera Rollcrete Dam in Brazil was just two years old when if failed because of excessive seepage along valley-side joints in July 2004.

  9. The Zion-Mt Carmel Tunnel Gallery 3 failure occurred in April 18, 1958, spilling 84,000 tons of Navajo Sandstone onto the slope below and damaging the tunnel, containing Utah Route 9.

  10. Cross section of Pine Canyon at location of the Gallery 3 rockfall. Note valley-side joints

  11. Unravel geomorphic progression – Cliffs tend to retreat in episodic steps. All of these steps are usually discernable at any given site.

  12. Stage 1 is gross cliff retreat immediately following a major detachment. After the remaining overhang drops, a completely smooth face forms, arbitrarily designated here as Stage 2.

  13. Stage 3 a sloping cliff toe forms, controlled by valley-side joints. In Stage 4 crown blocks have detached along inclined valley-side joints

  14. Stage 5 is overhanging situation preceding massive detachment of block(s) along inclined valley-sidejoints

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