Modeling the travel distances of debris flows and debris slides: Quantifying hillside morphology

Annals of Forest Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-134

  Strimbu B ^a  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary codification; British columbia; Number theory; Reach; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952746790     PISSN: 18448135     EISSN: 20652445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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