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STABILITY OF ROCK SLOPES ALONG RAIDAH ESCARPMENT ROAD, ASIR AREA, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA (2012)

The Raidah Escarpment road is located north west of Abha city, Asir region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This escarpment road represents an important corridor in the area which connects different villages and tourist resorts with each other. The total length of this road section is about 9 km which passes through a highly mountainous area. The road also passes through areas of different geological hazards (rock, debris flow, soil, and weathered zones). The different environmental factors (e.g. intensive rainy summer), variable geological and structural elements (weak rocks, slide debris weak soils, shear zones, and faults) difficult road characteristics (narrow roads with tight horizontal andvertical curvature) and various human activities in the area make the road susceptible to frequent slope failures (rockfalls, rock sliding, debris flow, soil slides, and raveling) from time to time. This paper deals with the evaluation of the stability of the rock cuts along the Raidah escarpment road using two methods including a structural controlled method and a raveling type method.

Reference:
Journal of Geography and Geolog, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2012
Organization:
Geology Deprtment, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Egypt
Egypt
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