Predictability of long runout landslide motion: Implications from granular flow mechanics

Geologische Rundschau

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 415-425

  Straub, S ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attractor; Debris flow; Dynamic system; Geological hazard; Grain inertia regime; Granular material; Long landslide; Mass movement; Prediction; Quasi static regime; Rapid granular flow; Scale invariance; Self organization; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; GRANULAR FLOW; GRANULAR FLOW MECHANICS; LANDSLIDE; RUNOUT; RUNOUT DISTANCE; SCALE INVARIANCE; SELF ORGANIZATION; SELF SIMILARITY;

EID: 0031414741     PISSN: 00167835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005310050150     Document Type: Article

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