Causes of Land Subsidence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Natural Hazards

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-63

  Amin, Ammar ^a   Bankher, Khalid ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Karst; Land subsidence; Loess sediments; Sabkha soil; Salt diapers

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; KARST; LOESS; SABKHA; SUBSIDENCE;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0031453930     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007942021332     Document Type: Article

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