Suction and rate-dependent behaviour of a shear-zone soil from a landslide in a gently-inclined mudstone-sandstone sequence in the Sichuan basin, China

Abstract Bedding-controlled landslides in alternated mudstone and sandstone beds in cataclinal slopes are common in the Sichuan basin and in the Three Gorges area in China. They are characterised by very gentle dip angles of the beds (