The influence of climate effects and fluctuations in groundwater level on the stability of anthropogenic foothill slopes in the Krušné Hory Mountains, Czechia
2010
Abstract
At the beginning of the 1980s, leveling circuits Z2b 11 and Z2b 3 (later also Z2b 12) were monitored as a means of confirming the hypothesis concerning the Krušné Hory Mountains uplift. Contemporary geodetical monitoring focuses on side slopes formed by Quaternary sediments and Tertiary clystones.
The stability of these anthropogenic slopes is implicated by hillside inclination, geological and geomorphological settings as well as climatic factors. The main objective of this study is to geomorphologically interpret the geodetical monitoring of the ČSA open-pit mine's hazardous side slopes and, in addition, to prove the influence of climatic factors on slope stability.