Fragmentation in the Val Pola rock avalanche, Italian Alps

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Crosta, Giovanni Battista ^a   Frattini, Paolo ^a   Fusi, Nicoletta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMINUTION; DEBRIS AVALANCHE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRAGMENTATION; GRAIN SIZE; MODELING; ROCK AVALANCHE; WEIBULL THEORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34249662303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JF000455     Document Type: Article

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