Short-term retreat statistics of a slowly eroding coastal cliff

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 205-217

  Young, A P ^a   Guza, R T ^a   O'Reilly, W C ^a   Flick, R E ^a   Gutierrez, R ^b  

^a INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CLIFF; COASTAL EROSION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; LIDAR; POWER LAW; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROCKFALL;

CALIFORNIA; POINT LOMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251519643     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-205-2011     Document Type: Article

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