Long-runout rockslide on glacier at Tsar Mountain, Canadian Rocky Mountains: Potential triggers, seismic and glaciological implications

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-216

  Jiskoot, Hester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cirque glacier; Mass movement seismicity; Rock avalanche; Rockslide; Runout dynamics

Indexed keywords

CIRQUE GLACIER; MASS MOVEMENT; ROCK AVALANCHE; ROCKSLIDE; RUNOUT DYNAMICS;

DEBRIS; FLOWLINES; FRICTION; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY;

GLACIERS;

CIRQUE; DEBRIS AVALANCHE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; ROCK AVALANCHE; SEISMICITY; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 78751706793     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2037     Document Type: Article

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