Story: Landslides

More links and websites

• GeoNet and landslides

  GeoNet provides a database of recent landslides reported in New Zealand.

• Giant submarine avalanche

  ‘Giant submarine avalanche: was this “Deep Impact”New Zealand style?’, by Keith Lewis and Jean-Yves Collot, outlines New Zealand’s largest offshore landslide. It appears in the online journal of the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research.

• Green Lake landslide

  The Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences describes New Zealand’s massive Green Lake landslide, which occurred in Fiordland around 13,000 years ago.

• Landslides and allied features in the Dunedin district in relation to geological structure, topography, and engineering

  Through his detailed geological mapping of the Dunedin district, Professor Benson became aware of the wide extend of landsliding in the region. This is one of the first papers in the world to describe a variety of landslide features in layered soft rocks and their close connection with geology (PDF, 1.9 MB). It was published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1940).

• Landslides in Britain

  The British Geological Survey site on landslides provides good information about landslides in general, as well as details of British landslides.

• Landslides in the Waikato region

  Environment Waikato’s site outlines the hazards of landslides, including the Hipaua Steaming Cliffs at Lake Taupō.

More suggestions and sources

• Boon, Kevin. The Abbotsford landslide. Wellington: Kotuku, 1995.
• McSaveney, Eileen, and Mauri McSaveney. ‘Beware of falling rocks!’ In Awesome forces, edited by Geoff Hicks and Hamish Campbell, 44–71. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 1998.
• Stuart, Ian Alexander. Landslide: the Abbotsford disaster, August 1, 1979. Dunedin: Allied Press, 1979.