Erosional processes in the hard rock coastal cliffs at Staithes, North Yorkshire

Geomorphology

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 12-21

  Lim, Michael ^a   Rosser, Nicholas J ^a   Allison, Robert J ^b   Petley, David N ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cliff erosion; Coastal rockslopes; Magnitude frequency; Terrestrial remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIFF; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DATA QUALITY; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; EROSION RATE; FAILURE MECHANISM; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LASER METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION; ROCKFALL; ROCKY SHORE; SCANNER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH YORKSHIRE; STAITHES; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 71749112047     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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