Quantitative sinkhole hazard assessment. A case study from the Ebro Valley evaporite alluvial karst (NE Spain)

Natural Hazards

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-233

  Gutiérrez, Francisco ^a   Guerrero, Jesús ^a   Lucha, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ebro Basin; Evaporitekarst; Probability of occurrence; Severity; Sink hole hazard assessment; Trenching

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EVAPORITE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; KARST; SINKHOLE; SUBSIDENCE; TRENCH;

EBRO BASIN; EBRO VALLEY; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 41849123821     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-007-9161-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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