Quantifying and modeling post-failure sediment yields from laboratory-scale soil erosion and shallow landslide experiments with silty loess

Geomorphology

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 49-58

  Acharya, Govind ^a   Cochrane, Tom ^a   Davies, Tim ^a   Bowman, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Flume; Landslides; Rainfall simulator; Sediment yield; Soil redistribution; WEPP

Indexed keywords

FLUME EXPERIMENT; HILLSLOPE; LANDSLIDE; MODELING; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SLOPE DYNAMICS; WATER EROSION;

EID: 79953786197     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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