Blasting for road cutting has de-stressed the rock mass of the folded strata causing opening of the folia and saturation of the slope during heavy rainfall facilitated sliding of material down dip towards the road
Interim report on Preliminary Slope Stability Assessment of Recent Disaster Affected Areas of Bageshwar District, Uttarakhand by Manoj Kumar Kaistha, Sr. Geologist; Ravi Negi & Sebabrata Das, Geologists and P.V.S. Rawat, Superintending Geologist, M-IV, N
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500 m NNE of Katpuriya Chhina
Breast wall
De-stressing of rock mass due to blasting of road cutting and presence of Open warps and valley dipping joints