Modelling mass failure in a Mediterranean mountain environment: climatic, geological, topographical and erosional controls

Geomorphology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-100

  Thornes, John B ^a   Alcántara Ayala, Irasema ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION;

MEDITERRANEAN;

EID: 0032122441     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(97)00103-7     Document Type: Article

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