Landslides, avalanches and glacial floods can have an immediate and devastating effect on anything in their path.
Landslides, avalanches and glacial floods can have an immediate and devastating effect on anything in their path.
However, a £1million research project is now going to explore their potential to impact communities often located hundreds of kilometres away and many years after an event has originally taken place.
Centred on the headwaters of the Ganges River in the Himalayas, the SUPERSLUG initiative is named after the huge masses of debris created by such natural disasters, sometimes described as sediment slugs when they travel down rivers.
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