Temporal and spatial variations in periglacial soil movements on alpine crest slopes

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-58

  Matsuoka, Norikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpine; Frost creep; Frost heave; Interannual variability; Mass wasting; Periglacial

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DEBRIS; FROST EFFECTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOIL MECHANICS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; VEGETATION; VELOCITY;

DEBRIS MANTLE; PERIGLACIAL SOIL MOVEMENTS; SEASONAL FROSTS; SHALLOW FROST CREEP;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; FROST HEAVE; MASS WASTING; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOIL; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ALPS; ASIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; JAPAN; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

EID: 13244283339     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1125     Document Type: Article

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