Slow mass movement in the Taisetsu Mountains, Hokkaido, Japan

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 347-357

  Sato, Taisuaki ^a   Kurashige, Yoshimasa ^b   Hirakawa, Kazuomi ^b  

^a Fuji Research Institute Corporation   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frost creep; Monitoring; Soil displacement; Soil moisture; Strain probe method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001471877     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199709)8:3<347::AID-PPP257>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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