Catastrophic rock slope failures and late Quaternary developments in the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh Massif, Upper Indus basin, northern Pakistan

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1055-1069

  Hewitt, Kenneth ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC STATE; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; GEOTECTONIC EVOLUTIONS; GLACIAL CHRONOLOGIES; GLACIAL LAKES; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS; LARGE LAKES; LATE QUATERNARIES; PAKISTAN; ROCK AVALANCHES; ROCK SLOPE FAILURES; UPPER INDUS BASINS; VALLEY FLOORS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FLOORS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; ROCKS; SOIL CONSERVATION; TECTONICS; TRENCHING;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CHRONOLOGY; EXHUMATION; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LANDSLIDE; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; RELIEF; ROCK AVALANCHE; SEDIMENTATION; SLOPE FAILURE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRACE; TRENCH;

ASIA; EURASIA; HARAMOSH; HIMALAYAS; KARAKORAM; NANGA PARBAT; NORTHERN AREAS; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 64549089955     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.12.019     Document Type: Article

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