Some catastrophic landslides since the twentieth century in the southwest of China

Landslides

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-81

  Runqiu, Huang ^a  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Case study; China; Large scale landslides; Triggering mechanism

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; CATASTROPHIC LANDSLIDES; CHINA; COMPLEX FORMATIONS; DYNAMIC CHANGES; GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS; HIGH STEEP SLOPES; LARGE-SCALE LANDSLIDES; SEISMIC ACTIVITIES; TIBET PLATEAUX; TRIGGERING FACTORS; TRIGGERING MECHANISM; TWENTIETH CENTURIES;

EARTHQUAKES;

LANDSLIDES;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY; TRIGGER MECHANISM; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 64949111454     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-009-0142-y     Document Type: Article

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