Hazards and mechanism of sinkholes on Kabudar Ahang and Famenin plains of Hamadan, Iran

Natural Hazards

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 481-499

  Karimi, Haji ^a   Taheri, Kamal ^b  

^a ILAM UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Karst Research and Study Bureau of West Region   (Iran)

Author keywords

Collapse; Dropout; Famenin; Hamadan; Kabudar Ahang; Overexploitation; Sinkhole; Suffosion

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; BEDROCK; COHESIVE SOIL; COLLAPSE; KARSTIFICATION; LIMESTONE; NATURAL HAZARD; POROSITY; SINKHOLE; WATER TABLE;

HAMADAN; IRAN;

EID: 78049344948     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9541-6     Document Type: Article

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