Landslide volumes and landslide mobilization rates in Umbria, central Italy

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 222-229

  Guzzetti, Fausto ^a   Ardizzone, Francesca ^a   Cardinali, Mauro ^a   Rossi, Mauro ^a   Valigi, Daniela ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

area; erosion; landslide; magnitude; statistics; volume

Indexed keywords

AREA; AVERAGE RATES; CENTRAL ITALY; GEOMETRICAL MEASUREMENTS; GLOBAL DATABASE; LONG TERMS; MAGNITUDE; MULTI TEMPORALS; OBSERVATION PERIODS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; POWER LAWS; SCALING EXPONENTS; TEMPORAL INFORMATIONS; VOLUME; WET PERIODS;

ALGEBRA; EROSION;

LANDSLIDES;

DATABASE; EROSION; LANDSLIDE; MAGNITUDE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UMBRIA;

EID: 61349115460     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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