ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a large rock avalanche and flow landslide in detail, which happened in Yigong, Tibet, China on April 9, 2000. It provides a brief discussion on the mechanism of the large complex landslide to raise the research interests of the scholars both at home and abroad. A remarkable catastrophic rock avalanche-flow landslide occurred at 19:59 on April 9, 2000, in Zhamulong gully of Yigong area, Bomi county, Tibet, China. The rock avalanche-flow landslide is that it destroyed totally 8 km2 forest. Yingong tea plantation was flooded. About 4000 people were affected by the disaster. After the landslide, a man-made channel was dug on the natural dam in order to drain the water off from the barrier lake. The rock avalnache-flow landslide is located in the Yigong area, the northen part of Tibet. The flow landslide section has an elevation of 3700 m at on the crown and an elevation of 2800 m at the toe.
