The relationship between slope gradient and lateritic cobble orientation with respect to shape, northwestern Taiwan

Environmental Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 565-574

  Chen, Hongey ^a   Tsai, B R ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Bureau of Reconstruction   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cobble; Grain shape; Intersected angle of strike; Northwestern Taiwan; Orientation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; SLOPE PROTECTION;

LATERISTIC COBBLE SLOPES;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; COBBLE; ESCARPMENT; GEOMETRY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LATERITE; ORIENTATION; SLOPE ANGLE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0036764691     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-002-0559-2     Document Type: Article

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