Paleogeomorphological method for the evaluation of landslide stability of the present-day abrasion slopes

Abstract

The method of paleogeomorphological analogies, worked out in the case of the Black Sea Sochi coast, is suggested for evaluating the degree of slope stability and a spatial forecasting of the possible areas of landslides. This method in essence presupposes that profiles of some slope are reconstructed for the moment of time directly preceding a landslide and thus concrete critical geometric slope parameters are established.