Hazardous modes of rock slope movement in the Canadian rockies

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 507-516

  Cruden, D M ^a   Hu, X Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buckles; Falls; Landslides; Rock Slides; Rock Slopes; Rockies; Topples

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDE MECHANISM; SLOPE STABILITY;

CANADA, ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0030437626     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.ii.4.507     Document Type: Article

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