Prolonged seismically induced erosion and the mass balance of a large earthquake

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 304, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 347-355

  Hovius, Niels ^a   Meunier, Patrick ^b   Lin, Ching Weei ^c   Chen, Hongey ^d   Chen, Yue Gau ^d   Dadson, Simon ^e   Horng, Ming Jame ^f   Lines, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Landsliding; Mass budget; Mountain building; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DIGITAL STORAGE; EROSION; INDUCED SEISMICITY; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

CHICHI EARTHQUAKE; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; LANDSLIDING; MASS BUDGET; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; PRE-EARTHQUAKE LEVELS; SEISMOGENIC FAULTS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; ECONOMIC REGENERATION; EROSION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; LANDSLIDE; SEISMICITY; TOPOGRAPHY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 79953056398     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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