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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Earth Sci.
Sec. Geohazards and Georisks
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feart.2025.1586275
This article is part of the Research TopicHigh-Altitude and Long-Runout Landslide Dynamics: Theory, Methods, and ApplicationsView all 5 articles
Research on the Instability Mechanism of Loess Landslides Based on Preferential Infiltration of Rainfall
Provisionally accepted- 1Qinghai Environmental Geological Prospecting Bureau, Key Laboratory of Environmental Geology of Qinghai Province, Xining, China
- 2Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
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Reply: Thank you for your detailed review comments. The reviewers recommended an excellent article on loess microstructure, which we have cited in the manuscript (line 51). However, specific research work on loess microstructure has not been addressed as the focus of this study has centred on the interconnections between predominant infiltration and slope stability at the macro level.Corresponding work could be carried out in the future to investigate this.1. In line 190, Permeability coefficient and SWCC mentioned as "obtained from tests" without specifying test types (lab/field).
Keywords: Loess landslides, Preferential infiltration, rainfall, slope stability, numerical simulation
Received: 02 Mar 2025; Accepted: 10 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Gang, Yan, Xia, Qi and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jinkai Yan, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
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