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Ambient Noise Measurements to Constrain the Geological Structure of the Güevéjar Landslide (S Spain)

José Delgado
Juan José Galiana-Merino
Francisco García-Tortosa
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Jesús Garrido
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Salvatore Martino
José Peláez
Martín Rodríguez-Peces
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Carlos Sanz de Galdeano
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Juan Soler-Llorens

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The reactivation of very large landslides may cause severe damage to society. Its prevention and management requires detailed information on the geometry and structure of these landslides, but the use of standard techniques (boreholes) may be prohibitive from an economic point of view. To overcome these difficulties, geophysical techniques are of special interest because they allow for studying very large areas at a reasonable cost. In this paper, we present a case study wherein the analysis of ambient noise allowed us to produce a model of a large landslide near Granada (southern Spain). The geometry and location of the failure zone, as well as the assessment of the state of involved materials, were estimated by combining two available boreholes and different geophysical techniques (downhole tests and the spectral analysis of ambient noise, horizontal to vertical spectral ratios (HVSR) and the frequency-wavenumber (f-k) methods). The results have allowed us to differentiate between values within the landslide mass with respect to those of stable materials, and to perform for the first time a comprehensive geological model of this unstable mass. Differences were also observed within the landslide mass (earth flow vs. slide zones), which are attributed to differences in the degree of alteration and the disturbance of the internal structure of materials constituting the landslide mass. These results show that techniques based on the measurement of ambient noise are of special interest for studying very large, highly remolded landslide masses.
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hal-03578540 , version 1 (17-02-2022)

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José Delgado, Juan José Galiana-Merino, Francisco García-Tortosa, Jesús Garrido, Luca Lenti, et al.. Ambient Noise Measurements to Constrain the Geological Structure of the Güevéjar Landslide (S Spain). Applied Sciences, 2021, 11 (4), pp.1454. ⟨10.3390/app11041454⟩. ⟨hal-03578540⟩
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