Geomorphological and geotechnical issues affecting the seismic slope stability of the Duwamish River Delta, Port of Seattle, Washington
Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Monograph
By: Robert E. Kayen, Walter A. Barnhardt, and Stephen P. Palmer
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Abstract
Young Holocene deposits of the Duwamish River valley underlie a highly developed transportation-industrial corridor, extending from the City of Kent to the Elliott Bay-Harbor Island marine terminal facilities. The deposits have been shaped by relative sea-level rise, but also by episodic volcanism and seismicity. A geologic and geotechnical investigation of these river-mouth deposits indicates high initial liquefaction susceptibility during earthquakes, and possibly the potential for unlimited-strain disintegrative flow failure of the delta front.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Geomorphological and geotechnical issues affecting the seismic slope stability of the Duwamish River Delta, Port of Seattle, Washington |
| Series title | Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Monograph |
| Issue | 16 |
| Year Published | 1999 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | ASCE |
| Publisher location | Reston, VA, United States |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Monograph |
| First page | 482 |
| Last page | 492 |
| Conference Title | Proceedings of the 1999 5th U.S. Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering: Optimazing Post-Earthquake Lifeline System Reliability |
| Conference Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
| Conference Date | 12 August 1999 through 14 August 1999 |