EOSC 114 Reading Assignment, Fall 2018: Landslides and Debris Flows (Important copyright notice1) Student ID:__________
Introduction
The reading for the Landslides module is more challenging than the last two, but this worksheet will guide you carefully
through only some portions of the article. So – do NOT simply try to read the whole thing. This is a paper published in
Geomorphology in 2010, by M. Jakob and P. Friele “Frequency and Magnitude of Debris Flows on Cheekye River, British
Columbia.” The reading involves only small portions of this article. It may look difficult, but we will NOT cover everything.
Follow instructions carefully and you should find it surprisingly easy to learn plenty from this article!
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for free access and to download this article from the UBC Library. You will need your CWL.
Goals. After completing this assignment, expect to be able to:
1. Recognize the different components of this specialists’ article.
2. Confidently extract the key messages the authors are trying to convey.
3. Identify some of the challenges of, and methods for, making Frequency-Magnitude models of debris flow fans that
include several thousands of years of debris flow events.
4. Explain how authors justify which data are more im