Mass movements and conservation management in Malta

摘要

Mass movements at an environmentally sensitive but very popular leisure site in Malta were investigated in order to establish whether they were naturally occurring or whether they might I some way have resulted from the chronic long- term degradation of the site. Field surveys of the slopes were undertaken and physical and geotechnical properties of the Maltese Blue Clay Formation, which forms the slopes, were determined from laboratory analysis of samples. Slope Stability was analysed using the infinite slope model; analysis of two 1996 mudflows indicates that these mass movements Are natural processes.