Landslides, sandpiles, and self-organized criticality

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 505-514

  Hergarten, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT; POWER LAW; SELF ORGANIZATION;

EID: 1642348775     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-3-505-2003     Document Type: Article

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