Particulate kinematic simulations of debris avalanches: Interpretation of deposits and landslide seismic signals of Mount Saint Helens, 1980 May 18

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 991-1004

  Ward, Steven N ^a   Day, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Debris avalanches; Effective friction coefficients; Land slides; Randomness; Volcanolateral collapse

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; DEBRIS AVALANCHE; DEBRIS FLOW; FRICTION; LANDSLIDE; MORPHOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SAINT HELENS [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750702533     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03118.x     Document Type: Article

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