Soil slips and debris flows on terraced slopes

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 31-42

  Crosta, G B ^a   Negro, P Dal ^a   Frattini, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; LANDSLIDE; SLOPE STABILITY; TERRACE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 1642286929     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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