It was made bigger because of something called "sensitive clay." Variations in the climate and melting permafrost are expected to cause more landslides, albeit likely smaller and shallower ...

A new study discusses triggers of the Saint-Jude landslide in Quebec that occurred in nearly 10,000-year-old sensitive clay sediment that 'liquefies' when disturbed. In May 2010, a landslide ...

Quick clay, a naturally occurring sensitive marine clay that can undergo ... distribution and triggering mechanisms of quick-clay landslides. By integrating surface and subsurface data—from ...

"Scientific knowledge on spreads in sensitive clays is limited. Investigations of case studies, like the one presented in this study of the Saint-Jude landslide, give us new information and ...