Quantitative basin characterisation to refine debris-flow triggering criteria and processes: An example from the Italian Western Alps

Landslides

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-57

  Tiranti, Davide ^a   Bonetto, Sabrina ^b   Mandrone, Giuseppe ^b  

^a ARPA PIEMONTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Engineering geology; Italy; Morphology; Rainfall; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IGNEOUS ROCKS; RAIN; ROCKS; RUNOFF;

ALPINE BASINS; MORPHOMETRIC; WESTERN ALPS;

DEBRIS;

BASIN; DEBRIS FLOW; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; RAINFALL;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SUSA VALLEY; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 39349086755     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-007-0101-4     Document Type: Article

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