Meteoric lithification of catastrophic rockslide deposits: Diagenesis and significance

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 223, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 150-161

  Sanders, Diethard ^a   Ostermann, Marc ^a   Brandner, Rainer ^a   Prager, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b AlpS Centre for Natural Hazard and Risk Management   (Austria)

Author keywords

Landslides; Mass wasting; Meteoric cementation; Meteoric diagenesis; Rockslides

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; BRECCIA; CARBONATE ROCK; CEMENTATION; CONGLOMERATE; DISSOLUTION; EMPLACEMENT; LANDSLIDE; LITHIFICATION; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PYRITE; ROCKFALL;

ALPS;

EID: 73349090228     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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