Quantitative Landslide Risk Assessment of Cairns, Australia

Landslide Hazard and Risk

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 621-640

  Michael Leiba, Marion ^a   Baynes, Fred ^b   Scott, Greg ^c   Granger, Ken ^a  

^a Consulting Engineering Geologist ^*

^b Geoscience Australia ^*  (Australia)

^c GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Landslide risk; Magnitude recurrence relations; Quantitative assessment; Shadow angles; Slope processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959692957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470012659.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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