Nature and timing of large landslides in the Himalaya and Transhimalaya of northern India

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1037-1054

  Dortch, Jason M ^a   Owen, Lewis A ^a   Haneberg, William C ^b   Caffee, Marc W ^c   Dietsch, Craig ^a   Kamp, Ulrich ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b Haneberg Geoscience   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; DEGLACIATION; DENUDATION RATES; HIMALAYA; HOLOCENE; ORDER OF MAGNITUDES; PORE-WATER PRESSURES; REGIONAL LANDSCAPES; SEISMIC SHAKING; SLIP SURFACES; SURFACE EXPOSURE DATING; TIME PERIODS; TIME-SCALES;

DEBRIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPES; SEISMOLOGY; WATER;

LANDSLIDES;

CHRONOLOGY; DEBRIS FLOW; DEGLACIATION; EARTHQUAKE; FRICTION; HOLOCENE; LANDSLIDE; POREWATER; RADIONUCLIDE; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 67349084671     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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