Artículo
Abstract:
In the region of the Main Andes of San Juan, exists a high concentration of landslide deposits that can originate natural dams. The outburst of these dams generated by slide is a common process in this morphology. The analyses of satellite imagery and air photos of previous years allow reconstructing the characteristics and the origin of the slides that formed those natural dams. In this region of the Main Andes, the rapid uplift and erosion of the mountain chain has created abrupt slopes and an internal structure in the materials that determined an increase of the susceptibility to the slope collapse without triggers as the seismic activity or precipitations. The objectives of the present work are (1) to analyze the causes that formed the natural dam and produced the landslide dam and development of the Los Erizos lagoon in the middle course of the Santa Cruz river; (2) the outburst of the dam and their consequent flood; and (3) the morphologic characteristic of the study region. The temporary comparison between air photos with satellite imageries indicates that the natural dam was generated by slip of the western hillside of the Santa Cruz mountain range, located below the Cerro Estrella. However, the constant water flow to the lagoon, has increased its water level until reaching the maximum benchmark of the dam, produced the beginning of the lake drainage and weakening of the dam causing the outburst and its consequent flood. Based on satellite imagery, a temporary analysis of the lagoon is presented, indicating that monitoring is an important tool to alert in the whole San Juan river basin for possible natural dikes, preventing hazards to the populations down water. The alluvium of November 12 of 2005, discharged 32.100.000 m3 in 67 minutes and traveled 254 km in less than 12 hours.
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| Documento: | Artículo |
| Título: | Landslide dam and outburst of the Río Santa Cruz, Main Andes, (31°40S), province of San Juan |
| Autor: | D'Odorico Benites, P.E.; Pérez, D.J.; Sequeir, N.; Fauqué, L. |
| Filiación: | Laboratorio de Tectónica Andina, Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina ArPetrol Argentina S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino (SEGEMAR) Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires |
| Palabras clave: | Cordillera frontal; Flood; Landslide dam; Main andes; Outburst; San juan; aerial photograph; dam; erosion rate; flooding; geomorphological response; hazard assessment; landslide; monitoring system; mountain region; outburst; satellite imagery; slope dynamics; slope failure; uplift; Andes; Argentina; San Juan [Argentina]; Santa Cruz [Argentina]; Santa Cruz River [Santa Cruz] |
| Año: | 2009 |
| Volumen: | 65 |
| Número: | 4 |
| Página de inicio: | 713 |
| Página de fin: | 724 |
| Título revista: | Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina |
| Título revista abreviado: | Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent. |
| ISSN: | 00044822 |
| PDF: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/download/paper/paper_00044822_v65_n4_p713_DOdoricoBenites.pdf |
| Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00044822_v65_n4_p713_DOdoricoBenites |
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D'Odorico Benites, P.E., Pérez, D.J., Sequeir, N. & Fauqué, L. (2009) . Landslide dam and outburst of the Río Santa Cruz, Main Andes, (31°40S), province of San Juan . Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina, 65(4), 713-724.Recuperado de https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00044822_v65_n4_p713_DOdoricoBenites [ ]
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D'Odorico Benites, P.E., Pérez, D.J., Sequeir, N., Fauqué, L. "Landslide dam and outburst of the Río Santa Cruz, Main Andes, (31°40S), province of San Juan " . Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina 65, no. 4 (2009) : 713-724.Recuperado de https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00044822_v65_n4_p713_DOdoricoBenites [ ]
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D'Odorico Benites, P.E., Pérez, D.J., Sequeir, N., Fauqué, L. "Landslide dam and outburst of the Río Santa Cruz, Main Andes, (31°40S), province of San Juan " . Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina, vol. 65, no. 4, 2009, pp. 713-724.Recuperado de https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00044822_v65_n4_p713_DOdoricoBenites [ ]
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D'Odorico Benites, P.E., Pérez, D.J., Sequeir, N., Fauqué, L. Landslide dam and outburst of the Río Santa Cruz, Main Andes, (31°40S), province of San Juan . Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent. 2009;65(4):713-724.Available from: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00044822_v65_n4_p713_DOdoricoBenites [ ]
