JOMARD , H.

The western part of the Argentera–Mercantour massif (French Alps) hosts very large currently active landslides responsible of many disorders and risks to the highly touristic valleys of the Mercantour National Park and skiing resorts. A regional scale mapping of gravitational deformations has been compared to the main geo-structures of the...

Journal of Applied Geophysics, v. 62, n. 1, p. 47-57, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2006.07.003

This paper deals with the applicability of electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) for the recognition of large landslide structures at depths, which have never previously been imaged accurately. One of the most studied and instrumented deep landslides in Europe is taken as an example: the La Clapière landslide. The first stage of the study...

The large-scale deformation of high mountain slopes finds its origin in many phenomena with very different time-constants. Gravitational effect, tectonic forces, and water infiltration are generally the principal causes. However, it is always very difficult to distinguish which cause is dominant and which are their respective effects. A...

A temporal imagery of water circulation in a landslide by Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) was conducted to identify spatially and temporally the coupling between rainfalls, consecutive water inflows in a sliding mass, and induced resistivity variations. This work is based on a multi-scale experimental approach applied on the "Vence"...

After a few years of research, the observation and the analysis of the deep-seated landslides suggest that these are mainly controlled by tectonic structures, which play a dominant role in the deformation of massif slopes. The La Clapière deep-seated landslide (Argentera Mercantour massif) is embedded in a deep-seated gravitational slope...