Highlands in East Africa: Unstable slopes, unstable environments?

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 419-429

  Westerberg, Lars Ove ^a   Christiansson, Carl ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS MOVEMENT; SLOPE STABILITY; UPLAND REGION;

KENYA;

EID: 0032844131     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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