A multidisciplinary study of submarine landslides at the Nidelva fjord delta, Central Norway - Implications for geohazard assessment

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-20

  L'Heureux, Jean Sébastien ^a   Hansen, Louise ^a   Longva, Oddvar ^a   Emdal, Arnfinn ^b   Grande, Lars Olav ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MASS MOVEMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC DATA; SHORELINE; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY; SONAR; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

NORWAY; SOR TRONDELAG; TRONDHEIM;

EID: 77952966167     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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