<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><b style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Spatial patterns of landslide initiation and development in the Colorado Rockies and the Alaska Range</b><br><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Annette Patton</b><br><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Colorado State University </i><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br></i></font>We present the results of landslide investigations in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, and Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, with methodological themes including analysis of the spatial distribution of landslides, slope characterization, and landslide mapping. In both the semi-arid Colorado Rockies and the discontinuous permafrost system of the Alaska Range, key factors in landslide initiation include lithology, convergent topography, and sediment production and supply.<br><br>During an extreme storm in the Colorado Front Range in September 2013, 11 debris flows initiated at high elevations in Rocky Mountain National Park. Eight of the 11 flows initiated as small landslides in areas of convergent topography, and eight initiated at elevations > 2800 m. Debris flows at high elevations in the Front Range are atypical; this event broadens our understanding of debris flow regimes in the Front Range. At one site with evidence of multiple debris flows sourced from the same colluvial hollow, we obtained relative ages of debris flow deposits through geomorphic mapping and fan stratigraphy. We used beryllium-10 (10Be) analysis to age stratigraphic deposits and debris flow levees. Large ranges in cosmogenic exposure age and anomalously old samples indicate that sampled boulders (n = 14) contained inherited 10Be concentrations. Despite this limitation, 10Be sample ages from all levees suggest that greatest sediment production occurred during Quaternary glacial stages due to periglacial processes. Subsequent evacuation of the colluvial hollow likely occurred during wetter periods of the mid-Holocene.<br><br>Rapid permafrost thaw in the arctic and subarctic increases hillslope susceptibility to landsliding by altering physical and hydrologic properties of hillslope materials, including reduced cohesion and increased hydraulic connectivity. We evaluate the fundamental processes that increase landslide frequency in regions of permafrost thaw and the short term topographic response of hillslopes to shallow-angle landslides. We synthesize remote analysis with field methods including surficial geologic mapping and time-series terrestrial lidar surveys of small (<1 km2) landslides in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Notably, landslides primarily occur in susceptible lithologies (unconsolidated glacial deposits and weathered felsic volcanics) and on hillslopes with a bimodal distribution of slope angles. These results suggest that permafrost or ice-related processes are generating landslides on shallow angles, while rainfall-dominated initiation occurs at steeper slope angles. 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