The 2001 Adana landslide and its destructive effects, Turkey

Environmental Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1489-1500

  Sivrikaya, O ^a   Kilic, A M ^b   Yalcin, M G ^a   Aykamis, A S ^c   Sonmez, M ^a  

^a NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF MINERAL RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adana (Turkey); Geotechnical investigation; Heavy rainfall; Landslide

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; RAIN; SOILS;

ADANA (TURKEY); GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION; HEAVY RAINFALL;

LANDSLIDES;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DEBRIS FLOW; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GEOTECHNICAL SURVEY; IN SITU TEST; LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; SILTY CLAY;

ADANA [TURKEY]; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 43549107052     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0930-4     Document Type: Article

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