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Mauri McSaveney

Mauri McSaveney

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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
4011
World Ranking
7374
National Ranking
80

Overview

Mauri McSaveney is affiliated with GNS Science in New Zealand. Their research spans multiple disciplines including environmental science, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions across several subfields such as management, monitoring, policy and law, geophysics, computational mechanics, civil and structural engineering, and mechanics of materials.

The main topics of McSaveney's work include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Rock mechanics and modeling
  • Geotechnical and geomechanical engineering
  • Earthquake detection and analysis
  • Hydrology and sediment transport processes

Frequent publication venues where McSaveney's research appears include:

  • Engineering Geology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geophysical Research Letters

McSaveney has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including Wei Hu, Yangshuai Zheng, Runqiu Huang, and Qiang Xu. These collaborations reflect a strong multidisciplinary approach and contribute to the breadth of their research.

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope of McSaveney's research interests:

  • "Instrumented flume tests on the failure and fluidization of tailings dams induced by rainfall infiltration," 2021, Engineering Geology
  • "A Weakening Rheology of Dry Granular Flows With Extensive Brittle Grain Damage in High-Speed Rotary Shear Experiments," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Flow amplification from cascading landslide dam failures: Insights from flume experiments," 2021, Engineering Geology
  • "Timing and seismic origin of Nixu rock avalanche in southern Tibet and its implications on Nimu active fault," 2020, Engineering Geology
  • "Recurrent rock avalanches progressively dismantle a mountain ridge in Beichuan County, Sichuan, most recently in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake," 2020, Geomorphology

These publications indicate a focus on natural hazard processes, particularly landslides, granular flow behavior, and the geological impacts of seismic activity. The research methodologies often involve experimental setups such as flume tests and rotary shear experiments.

Best Publications

  • The role of rock fragmentation in the motion of large landslides

    T.R. Davies;M.J. McSaveney

  • Sediment generation and delivery from large historic landslides in the Southern Alps, New Zealand

    Oliver Korup;Mauri J McSaveney;Timothy R.H Davies

  • Recent rockfalls and rock avalanches in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand

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  • Effects of debris on ice-surface melting rates: an experimental study

    Natalya Reznichenko;Tim Davies;James Shulmeister;Mauri McSaveney

  • Patterns of movement in reactivated landslides

    C. I. Massey;David Petley;M. J. McSaveney

  • The October 1999 Mt Adams rock avalanche and subsequent landslide dam‐break flood and effects in Poerua river, Westland, New Zealand

    Graham T. Hancox;Mauri J. McSaveney;Vernon R. Manville;Tim R. Davies

  • The 17 July 1998 tsunami, Papua New Guinea: evidence and initial interpretation

    M.J. McSaveney;J.R. Goff;D.J. Darby;P. Goldsmith

  • Sedimentation in Proglacial Ivory Lake, Southern Alps, New Zealand

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  • Dynamics of the 2008 earthquake-triggered Wenjiagou Creek rock avalanche, Qingping, Sichuan, China

    Ming Zhang;Yueping Yin;Mauri McSaveney

  • Superheated steam, hot CO2 and dynamic recrystallization from frictional heat jointly lubricated a giant landslide: Field and experimental evidence

    Wei Hu;Runqiu Huang;Mauri McSaveney;Mauri McSaveney;Lu Yao

  • Influence of runout-path material on emplacement of the Round Top rock avalanche, New Zealand.

    A. Dufresne;T.R. Davies;M.J. McSaveney

  • Rockslides and Their Motion

    Mauri McSaveney;Tim Davies

  • Runout of the Socompa volcanic debris avalanche, Chile: a mechanical explanation for low basal shear resistance

    Tim Davies;Mauri McSaveney;Karim Kelfoun

  • Mineral changes quantify frictional heating during a large low-friction landslide

    Wei Hu;Runqiu Huang;Mauri McSaveney;Xiang-hui Zhang

  • Determining Rockfall Risk in Christchurch Using Rockfalls Triggered by the 2010–2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence

    Chris I. Massey;Mauri J. McSaveney;Tony Taig;Laurie Richards

  • Regional relief characteristics and denudation pattern of the western Southern Alps, New Zealand

    Oliver Korup;Jochen Schmidt;Mauri J. McSaveney

  • Orbital forcing of mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere glaciation since 100 ka inferred from cosmogenic nuclide ages of moraine boulders from the Cascade Plateau, southwest New Zealand

    Rupert Sutherland;Kyeong Kim;Albert Zondervan;Mauri McSaveney

  • Rock avalanche deposits store quantitative evidence on internal shear during runout

    M. Zhang;M. J. McSaveney

  • Rock slope response to strong earthquake shaking

    C. Massey;F. Della Pasqua;C. Holden;A. Kaiser

  • Dynamic liquefaction of shear zones in intact loess during simulated earthquake loading

    J. M. Carey;M. J. McSaveney;D. N. Petley

  • Out-burst flood (lahar) triggered by retrogressive landsliding, 18 March 2007 at Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand—a successful early warning

    Christopher I. Massey;Vernon Manville;Graham H. Hancox;Harry J. Keys

  • Is air pollution causing landslides in China

    Ming Zhang;Mauri J. McSaveney

  • Mineral changes quantify frictional heating during a large low-friction landslide

    wei hu;Mauri McSaveney;Lu Yao

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Davies
Tim Davies University of Canterbury
Kyoji Sassa
Kyoji Sassa Kyoto University
Fausto Guzzetti
Fausto Guzzetti Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR
Oliver Korup
Oliver Korup University of Potsdam
Gonghui Wang
Gonghui Wang Kyoto University
Nicola Casagli
Nicola Casagli University of Florence
James Goff
James Goff University of New South Wales
David A. Rhoades
David A. Rhoades GNS Science
Rupert Sutherland
Rupert Sutherland Victoria University of Wellington
Timothy A. Little
Timothy A. Little Victoria University of Wellington

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