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Why are terrain maps important?

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Terrain and stream stability are a key focus of the mapping. understand which areas are prone to flooding, mass land movements.

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What is a Terrain map?

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Descriptive data on the physical characteristics of the land surface.

  • topography
  • aspect
  • landforms
  • material properties
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1st step in watershed terrain analysis

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Determine what info is available.
Terrain maps, forest cover maps w/Sensitive areas
-Slope stability, geology maps, air photos

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What are some general info aspects of Watershed assessment?

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  • Landforms and slope
  • surficial materials
  • geological processes
  • BEdrock
  • Hydrological characteristics
  • Vegetation
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Where can you find map info?

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Terrain Info BCMoE
Federal Gov
BC Gov Sales Offices

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What are possible problems with maps? Air photos

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Inappropriate scale (Inability to differentiate small units)

  • Area of delineated polygon not field checked
  • Level of map usefulness- who mapped it.
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Describe Basal till

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  • Rock fragments of various sizes and shapes in a matrix of predominantly silt clay
  • Non-Stratified
  • high compaction. variable minerology/texture
  • depends of source materials moved by ice
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Describe Ablation materials?

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Later stages of glaciation (melting)
non compact-coarse, sandy textures.
 relatively pervious materials
-fine materials are washed away
-hummocky landform
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Fluvial sediments

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Active braided channels
flood plain
fluvial fans
non sorted-non bedded
rapid aggradation
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Glacial Fluvial deposits

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Eskers, Kames terraces, outwash points, wide range of particle size,

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Deltaic Deposits

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Gravels and sand deposits

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Lacustrine

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Fine sediments settled from suspension in standing fresh water (lake)
-well sorted and stratified materials along beaches
varves- shows seasonal layers when in sediment horizon

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littoral sediments

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transported and deposited by wave action

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varves

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Seasonal layers when you cut into the lake sediment horizon

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Glaciolacustrine materials

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Deposited in or along the margins of glacial (ice dammed lakes) layers of silt and fine sand. kamloops

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Marine Deposits

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Marine mud mixtures
sediments deposited in salt or brackish water; clay silts and sands to well sorted and stratified modern beach
Large valleys at elevations of up to 250m (Kitimat valley, south coast fraser valley)
-shells

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Glacial Marine

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mud, silt, clay, shells

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Colluvium

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Materials that have reached thier present position as a result of direct gravity-induced movement

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What are the 3 groups of colluvium?

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  1. (rock slide) Talus slopes, colluvial mantles, rockslides, snow avalanche deposits ( loose angular rock fragments , non-cohesive , well drained)
  2. Debris flow and mudflow deposits (interlayer debris flow deposits-fluvial deposists
  3. earthflow and slumps, texture depends on source material (weathered bedrock, till) high clay content.
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What materials make up colluvium

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Range of size in poor-well stratified
boulders to rocks, pebbles to clay/
like a rock avalanche

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Eolian deposits

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Material transported and deposited by wind

  • revegetated sand dune
  • medium fine sand
  • coarse silt that is well sorted
  • non compacted
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rock and bedrock

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Soft volcanic rock weathered to clay

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what are the two types of weathering

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Chemical and physical

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Volcanic Sediments

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Ash, cinder lapilli volcanic bombs, tephra (flying magma turned to solid) basalt lava flow

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Organic sediments
Organice material resulting from the accumulation of vegetative matter; thick level peat bog -swampy areas
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Define surficial materials
Non-litified unconsolidated sediments
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how are surficial materials produced?
Weathering, sediment deposition, biological accumulation, volcanic activity and human activity
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How are surficial materials classified?
Mode of origin: eroded and deposited by glacial ice; post glacial erosion by wind water and landslides; or accumulation of biological origin
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What are Schematic Cross sections?
rough depictions of where between two points would we find different surficial materials and how large those sedposits may be
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Alluvial Fans
Occur when confined channel enters a broad valley | -sediment deposition causes the channel to swing back n forth, developing a fan like shape`
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Types of Alluvial fans?
- flood fans (low gradient channels) | - debris flow fans (steep with landslide deposits
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What is FCN?
Natural Fan Channel Networks
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What are 2 measures of FCN?
``` Channel extent (% of the fan surface covered by active channel) -Channel network complexity (# of channel nodes, where channels fork/join ```
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Gullies
Steep, incised headwater channels | -sediment and woody debris onto lower valley slopes or into valley bottom streams
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GAP intends to..
Identify the main factors affecting forest management in and around gullies
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GAP provides..
a framework for managin gully systems before and after harvest
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what are the 3 parts of GAP?
- Collection of field and air photo/map data - Assess hazards and resources at risk - Selection of management strategies and goals
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Why gully assessment?
major part of riparian/stream network high frequency of landslides, operationally difficult hazardous for forestry work, public, water quality, fisheries
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gully system hazards:
debris slides and flows Water floods fan destabilization
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What does gully hazard level depend on?
``` climate and gully systems -size of catchment area # of triburary channels - slope angels on head wall and side wall -type of materials -channel and fan gradient -other woody debris and sediments ```
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What are the components of GAP?
reach by reach assessment | reach by reach management strategies
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What are the 7 GAP form components?
1. Gully system Id 2. Downstream Impact Potential 3. Upslope debris flow potential 4. Water transport potential 5. Fan destabilization potential 6. Debris flow initiation potential 7. Post-logging conditions
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What is downstream impact potential
Assessing the potential downstream impacts of all reaches in the gully. sidewalls and channell materials/ debris etc.
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What is Upsole debris flow potential
Used of fans, transport zone and headwalls
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What is water transport potential?
Used for fans, transport zones and headwalls
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What is fan destabilization potential?
The potential for the stream channels on a fan to be destabilized, to widen or erode or avulse (breakout)
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What is debris flow initiation potential?
Headwall failure potential Sidewall failure potential Gully geometry potential for debris flow hazard debris flow initiation hazard
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What are post logging conditions?
Evaluates the effect of harvesting on logging debris and sediment in the channel rehab assessments
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What are some management goals of GAP?
maintain gully wall and channel stability | maintain natural rates of erosion and recruitment and transport of sediment and woody debris
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What is gully restoration?
- reduce volume of logging debris and sediment in gully. must be done immediately after harvest or the debris and sediment become part of the channel structure - stabilize gully walls with vegetation - protect sidewalls from stream erosion - Road deactivation
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What are some strategies of road deactivation?
- remove bridges, culverts - construct fjords - pull back fill slopes, stabilize road cuts - re-establihs channel geometry+ hydrology - armour channel beds - clear woody debris immediately upstream and downstream of crossings
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Terrain analysis
Description of the form and character of the land surface and the materials that underlie it -past and present geological processes that modify the landscape
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3 Rapid mass movement processes
1. Debris slides 2. Avalanches 3. flows
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Classification of landslide events is by the following:
-Failure mechanism -depth of failure -rate of failure -water content -material type (rock, debris , earth, mud)
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Landslide types:
Bedrock failures: 1. Topple (slump) 2. fall (material free falls) 3. saskungen- sagging hillslope, bedrock slide 4. creep 5. slump
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Pavilion earth flow
Old and very slow moving -annual snowmelt recharges the groudn water to keep the slide moving hummocky nature of the earthflow deposit
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Debris flow
``` Material movement down channels as slurries of sediment, water and debris #1 worldwide-money+lives ```
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Piping
Subsurface water erosion | -occurs in loose, non-cohesive materials overlying a stronger more cohesive material
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Ravel
Dry process where the slope adjusts to its angle of repose.
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Snow avalanches
Failure of large amount of snow on steep mountain. can often occur in the same paths as other failures
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Landslide
Any mass of earth material (soil or rock) displaced by gravity
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Criteria to delineate TSM classes
- slope gradient - surficial material - material texture - slope morphology - drainage - geomorphic processes.

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