Engineering geological assessments of the repeated plane shear slope instability threatening Babadag (Turkey) and its environmental impacts

Environmental Geology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 685-701

  Cevik, S Yeliz ^a   Ulusay, R ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Babadag; Deterministic analyses; Landslide; Monitoring; Plane shear failure; Shear strength; Stability index

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PORE PRESSURE; SANDSTONE; SEEPAGE; SHEAR FLOW; TECTONICS; WASTEWATER;

MARL; SETTLEMENTS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER SEEPAGE;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL MECHANICS; WATER LEVEL;

BABADAG; DENIZLI [TURKEY]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 16444373248     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-004-1197-7     Document Type: Article

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