Slope-failure Analysis and Classification: Review of a Century of Effort

Physical Geography

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 216-247

  Shroder, John F ^a   Cvercková, Lubica ^a   Mulhern, Kimberlee L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b US Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District   (United States)

Author keywords

Fall; Flow; Landslide; Mass movement; Slide; Slope failure; Spread; Topple

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; SLOPE FAILURE;

EID: 28144433991     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.26.3.216     Document Type: Article

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