Pore water pressure as a trigger of shallow landslides in the Western Ghats of Kerala, India: Some preliminary observations from an experimental catchment

Physical Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 374-386

  Kuriakose, Sekhar L ^a   Jetten, V G ^a   van Westen, C J ^a   Sankar, G ^b   van Beek, L P H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR EARTH SCIENCE STUDIES   (India)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSLIDE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PIEZOMETER; PORE PRESSURE; POREWATER; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SLOPE STABILITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KERALA; SOUTH ASIA; WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 65549153247     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.29.4.374     Document Type: Article

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