Debris-flow deposition: Effects of pore-fluid pressure and friction concentrated at flow margins

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1424-1434

  Major, Jon J ^a   Iverson, Richard M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FRICTION;

BED FRICTION; DEPOSIT THICKNESS; GRAIN COLLISIONS; GRAIN CONTACTS; MEASUREMENTS OF; NORMAL STRESS; PORE FLUID PRESSURE; VISCOPLASTIC;

DEBRIS;

DEBRIS FLOW; FLUID PRESSURE; FRICTION;

EID: 0033403588     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1424:DFDEOP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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