Laser scanning-based recognition of rotational movements on a deep seated gravitational instability: The Cinque Torri case (North-Eastern Italian Alps)

Geomorphology

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 191-204

  Viero, Alessia ^a   Teza, Giordano ^a   Massironi, Matteo ^a   Jaboyedoff, Michel ^b   Galgaro, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cinque Torri; Deep seated gravitational slope deformations; Laser scanner; Lateral spreading; Rotation angles; Structural control

Indexed keywords

CARBONATITE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DOLOMITE; LASER METHOD; PLATEAU; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SLOPE STABILITY; SPREADING CENTER; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

BELLUNO; CINQUE TORRI; CORTINA D'AMPEZZO; ITALY; VENETO;

EID: 77955272702     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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