Significance of geomorphological and subsurface drainage controls on failures of peat-covered hillslopes triggered by extreme rainfall

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1841-1862

  Dykes, Alan P ^a,b   Warburton, Jeff ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blanket peat; Peat slides; Shallow landslides; Soil pipes; Upland catena; Western Ireland

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; RAIN; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

SLOPE FAILURE; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

LANDSLIDES;

DRAINAGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSLIDES; RAIN; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; HILLSLOPE; LANDSLIDE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOSOL; PEAT; SLOPE FAILURE; SOIL HORIZON;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35748940345     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1499     Document Type: Article

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