| Abstract: | Damming landslides are very common in China, they ever blocked the rivers and streams completely or partly, and form natural lakes. Now more than 150 damming landslides in China are recognized through field investigation and data collection indoors. These Landslides distribute in steep mountainous counties around the Qinghai—Tibet Plateau, and mainly of which in southwest China and northwest China.. Studies show that the distribution of damming landslides has a close relation with the event of the Tibet plateau upheaval. The thermodynamic effect on the free atmosphere results from rapid upheaval of Qinghai\|Tibet plateau is more and more intensive, it causes air to circulate from east to west. In winter, the high Tibet Plateau leads the cool air gather quickly and high cool potential to be stronger. On one side, an anticyclone cool high pressure forms near the ground surface at the altitude of 4000～5000m, and produces winter monsoon wind. On the other side, the shielding effect of the plateau impedes the air from Siberia touching with the air from south Indian Ocean, which causes the cool air from Siberia enters China frequently and strengthens the cool and drought in northwest China. In summer, the monsoon wind is impeded by the plateau and cannot enter into north China, where it is dry, it can only moves around the plateau and at the edge enters into southwest, south, middle and east China, where the rainfall process is strong. Thus south and east of the plateau become the areas with many damming landslides resulted from heavy rain. |
