On preparatory causal factors, initiating the prehistoric Tsergo Ri landslide (Langthang Himal, Nepal)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 260, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 95-107

  Weidinger, Johannes Thomas ^a   Schramm, Josef Michael ^a   Surenian, Rouben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDE; LANDSLIDE TRIGGER; NEOTECTONICS; SEISMICITY; SLOPE STABILITY; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

NEPAL, LANGTHANG HIMAL;

EID: 0030439702     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(96)00078-9     Document Type: Article

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