Glacially conditioned rock-slope failures and disturbance-regime landscapes, Upper Indus Basin, northern Pakistan

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 320, Issue , 2009, Pages 235-255

  Hewitt, Kenneth ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDUS BASIN; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70349216596     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP320.15     Document Type: Article

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