Self-organized criticality in a landslide model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 801-804

  Hergarten, Stefan ^a   Neugebauer, Horst J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); LANDSLIDES; SLOPE STABILITY;

SELF ORGANIZED CRITICALITY (SOC); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION MODEL; LANDSLIDE MAPPING; LANDSLIDING; MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MASS MOVEMENT; PHYSICALLY BASED; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; THEORETICAL POINTS;

LANDSLIDES; SLOPE PROTECTION;

LANDSLIDE MODEL; POWER LAW; SELF ORGANIZED CRITICALITY;

EID: 0032520575     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL50419     Document Type: Article

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