Frictionite as evidence for a large Late Quaternary rockslide near Kanchenjunga, Sikkim Himalayas, India - Implications for extreme events in mountain relief destruction

Geomorphology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-65

  Weidinger, Johannes T ^a   Korup, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Frictionite; Himalayas; Hyalomylonite; Landslide; Quaternary geology

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; LANDSLIDE; LEUCOGRANITE; MIGMATITE; PETROGRAPHY; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; KANGCHENJUNGA;

EID: 56149108857     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.10.021     Document Type: Article

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