Slope failures in the Blue Nile basin, as seen from landscape evolution perspective

Geomorphology

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 95-116

  Ayalew, Lulseged ^a   Yamagishi, Hiromitsu ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blue Nile; Ethiopia; Landscape; Landslide; Rock fall; Slope failure

Indexed keywords

GORGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; SLOPE ANGLE; SLOPE FAILURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

AFRICA; BLUE NILE; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; NILE RIVER; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 0346461763     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(03)00085-0     Document Type: Article

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