Catastrophic slope failure and its origins: Case of the May 2010 Girová Mountain long-runout rockslide (Czech Republic)

Geomorphology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 352-364

  Pánek, Tomáš ^a   Šilhán, Karel ^a   Tábořík, Petr ^a   Hradeckỳ, Jan ^a   Smolková, Veronika ^a   Lenart, Jan ^a   Brázdil, Rudolf ^b   Kašičková, Lucie ^b   Pazdur, Anna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Deep seated gravitational slope deformation; Dendrogeomorphology; Flysch; Outer Western Carpathians; Radiocarbon dating; Recurrent catastrophic landslide

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DEFORMATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FLYSCH; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SLOPE FAILURE;

CARPATHIANS; CZECH REPUBLIC; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

EID: 79956117103     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.04.020     Document Type: Article

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