The July 2007 rock and ice avalanches at Mount Steele, St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada

Landslides

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 445-455

  Lipovsky, Panya S ^a   Evans, Stephen G ^b   Clague, John J ^c   Hopkinson, Chris ^d   Couture, Réjean ^e   Bobrowsky, Peter ^e   Ekström, Göran ^f   Demuth, Michael N ^e   Delaney, Keith B ^b   Roberts, Nicholas J ^b   Clarke, Garry ^g   Schaeffer, Andrew ^g  

^a Yukon Geological Survey   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NOVA SCOTIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ice avalanche; Mount Steele; Rock avalanche; St. Elias Mountains; Yukon Territory

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GLACIERS; ICE; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; MOUNTINGS; OPTICAL RADAR; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; SNOW; SURFACE WAVES;

ICE AVALANCHE; MOUNT STEELE; ROCK AVALANCHE; ST. ELIAS MOUNTAINS; YUKON TERRITORY;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

DEBRIS FLOW; LANDSLIDE; ROCK AVALANCHE; SEISMOLOGY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CANADA; MOUNT STEELE; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT ELIAS MOUNTAINS; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 55849144359     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-008-0133-4     Document Type: Article

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