Overrun length of avalanches overtopping catching dams: Cross-comparison of small-scale laboratory experiments and observations from full-scale avalanches

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Faug, Thierry ^a   Gauer, P ^b   Lied, K ^b   Naaim, M ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; DAM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OVERTOPPING;

EID: 54449086783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000854     Document Type: Article

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