Heaving-Bedrock Hazards, Mitigation,
and Land-Use Policy:
Front Range Piedmont, Colorado

DAVID C. NOE
Colorado Geological Survey, 1313 Sherman Street, Room 715, Denver, CO 80203


FIGURE 6: Block diagrams showing different types of heave features associated with heaving bedrock (modified form Noe and Dodson, 1995).

(A) Near-symmetrical heave features formed by differential swelling and/or rebound of individual bedrock layers, each having a different swell potential. This type of heaving results in straight-crested, longitudinal uplift of the ground surface, oriented parallel to bedding strike.

(B) Strongly asymmetrical heave features formed by thrust-like, shear-slip movement along bedding planes or fracture surfaces. The bedding-plane features are straight crested and are oriented parallel to bedding strike, whereas the fracture-plane features have curvilinear crests and may not necessarily be oriented parallel to bedding strike.

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