Anatomy of Pennine peat slide, northern England

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 457-473

  Warburton, Jeff ^a   Higgitt, David ^a   Mills, Andrew ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Peat; Sediment budget; Slope stability analysis; Slope channel coupling; Translational shallow mass movement

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; MORPHOLOGY; RAIN; SEDIMENTATION;

COMPRESSIVE MOVEMENTS;

LANDFORMS;

MASS MOVEMENT; PEAT; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY; STREAM CHANNEL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037631746     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.452     Document Type: Article

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