Sliding of outrunner blocks from submarine landslides

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  De Blasio, Fabio Vittorio ^a,b   Engvik, Lars Enok ^c   Elverhøi, Anders ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LANDSLIDES; LUBRICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OUTRUNNER BLOCKS; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; WATER LUBRICATION;

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

SEAFLOOR; SLOPE; SOIL EROSION; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE;

EID: 33646461005     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025165     Document Type: Article

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