Department of Civil Engineering and Natural Hazards, Institute of Applied Geology, University of Natural Resources and Life
Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, 1190, Austria
Annemarie Schneeberger
Department of Civil Engineering and Natural Hazards, Institute of Applied Geology, University of Natural Resources and Life
Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, 1190, Austria
Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 6020,
Austria
Georg Steiner
Department of Civil Engineering and Natural Hazards, Institute of Applied Geology, University of Natural Resources and Life
Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, 1190, Austria
Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung, Klagenfurt, 9021, Austria
Department of Civil Engineering and Natural Hazards, Institute of Applied Geology, University of Natural Resources and Life
Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, 1190, Austria
Department of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz,
Graz, 8010, Austria
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The Köfels rockslide in the Ötztal Valley (Austria) represents the largest known extremely rapid rockslide in metamorphic rock masses in the Alps and was formed in the early Holocene. Although many hypotheses for the conditioning and triggering factors were discussed in the past, until now no scientifically accepted explanatory model has been found. This study provides new data and numerical modelling results to better understand the cause and triggering factors of this gigantic natural event.
The Köfels rockslide in the Ötztal Valley (Austria) represents the largest known extremely...