Ground subsidence, Quaternary faults and vulnerability of utilities and transportation networks in Thessaly, Greece

Environmental Geology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1085-1095

  Kontogianni, V ^a,b   Pytharouli, S ^a   Stiros, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Technological Institute of Larisa   (Greece)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Greece; Ground fissures; Groundwater withdrawal; Land subsidence; Thessaly; Utility networks

Indexed keywords

CONSOLIDATION; GROUNDWATER; RAILROAD TRACKS; ROADS AND STREETS; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

GROUND FISSURES; GROUNDWATER WITHDRAWAL; QUATERNARY FAULTS; THESSALY; UTILITY NETWORKS;

SUBSIDENCE;

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; COMPACTION; CONSOLIDATION; FAULT; FISSURE; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; KINEMATICS; SEISMICITY; SUBSIDENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THESSALY;

EID: 34248587341     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0548-y     Document Type: Article

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