A landslide in clayey soils: An example from the Kizildag region of the Sivas-Erzincan highway (Sivas-Turkey)

Environmental Geosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-42

  Yilmaz, Işik ^a   Karacan, Ergun ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Circular slip; Clay; Highway; Landslide; Slope stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444443118     PISSN: 10759565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0984.2002.91002.x     Document Type: Article

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