Catastrophic landslide induced by Typhoon Morakot, Shiaolin, Taiwan

Geomorphology

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 166-178

  Tsou, Ching Ying ^a   Feng, Zheng Yi ^b   Chigira, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Deep seated landslide; Gravitational slope deformation; Landslide; Shiaolin; Typhoon Morakot

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; LANDSLIDE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; ROCK AVALANCHE; SLOPE FAILURE; TYPHOON; VILLAGE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 79951773741     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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