热融滑塌最早发现于青藏高原风火山。养路工人取土修路，使路边斜坡下的地下冰层暴露，夏天暴露的冰层融化，上覆草皮和土层失去支承而塌落下来，冰层融水稀释了塌落的物质，并在重力作用下沿着斜坡缓缓下滑。这样地下冰层继续融化，上边土层继续滑塌，并使新的冰层继续露出，这样几经反复，经过几个夏天，这种滑塌就会到达坡顶。
基于典型热融滑塌型斜坡失稳，针对不同的渗流条件建立了其稳定性评价方法。
Through the failure of thawing-soil slope the method for the stability evaluation of the slope with different seepage conditions is presented.
路基周而复始的冻胀、融沉和热融滑塌是冻土地区道路建设和维护所面临的主要难题。
The continual freezing and expanding, melting and submerging and melting and sinking of roadbed are the main problem on the building and maintaining of road in frozen earth area.
以发育于青藏高原多年冻土区平缓斜坡上的两处热融滑塌为例 ，研究了热融滑塌发育的斜坡地质、冻土条件及变形特征。
Thaw slumping existing on two slopes in the permafrost region of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are studied with their geological, frozen soil conditions and deformations.
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