Instability of coral limestone cliffs due to extreme waves

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1357-1367

  Kogure, Tetsuya ^a   Matsukura, Yukinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coastal cliffs; Collapses; Coral limestone; Extreme waves; Stability analysis

Indexed keywords

COASTAL CLIFF; COLLAPSES; CORAL LIMESTONE; EXTREME WAVES; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

LIMESTONE; STABILITY;

LANDFORMS;

BOULDER; CLIFF; LIMESTONE; SLOPE STABILITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TSUNAMI; WAVE FORCE;

JAPAN; KERAMA ISLANDS; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 77956693442     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2046     Document Type: Article

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