Landslide erosion controlled by hillslope material

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 247-251

  Larsen, Isaac J ^a   Montgomery, David R ^a   Korup, Oliver ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEDROCK; EROSION CONTROL; EROSION RATE; GEOMETRY; HILLSLOPE; LANDSLIDE; MOUNTAIN REGION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950523497     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo776     Document Type: Article

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