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Description
Mind Map by stephsandison, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by stephsandison
over 10 years ago
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Holbeck Hall Landslide
- Background
- Between night of
3rd June and 5th
June 1993.
- South of Scarborough in North
Yorkshire.
- Famous since it destroyed 4*
Holbeck Hall Hotel.
- Rotational landslide cut back a
60m cliff by 70m.
- Between night of
3rd June and 5th
June 1993.
- Causes
- 140mm of rainfall in previous two
months.
- Issue with drainage of slope.
- Pore water pressure built up in slope.
- Geology- boulder clay and glacial
till (very weak rock).
- Buildings, due to their foundations increased the shear pressure.
- Footpaths along the cliff.
- 140mm of rainfall in previous two
months.
- Impacts
- Affected tourism for Holbeck Hall Hotel
as damaged beyond state of repair.
Hotel no longer exists.
- No casualties or deaths.
- Affected tourism for Holbeck Hall Hotel
as damaged beyond state of repair.
Hotel no longer exists.
- Human Reaction
- Evacuation from hotel.
- Beach and footpaths along cliff closed off.
- Lots of media coverage, showing hotel collapse.
- Now have rock armour protecting this part of cliff.
- Evacuation from hotel.
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