Causes and mechanism of Amboori landslide of 9th November, 2001, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 203-208

  Pitchai Muthu, R ^a   Muraleedharan, C ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Amboori; Contour bunds; Kurisumalai; Landslide; Landslide hazard zoning; Meteorology; Mitigation; Trigger of slide

Indexed keywords

FAILURE MECHANISM; LANDSLIDE; NATURAL HAZARD; SLOPE FAILURE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; KERALA; SOUTH ASIA; THIRUVANANTHAPURAM; WORLD;

EID: 25844482569     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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