Landslides triggered by the 7 August 2009 Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan

Engineering Geology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 3-12

  Lin, Ching Weei ^a   Chang, Wei Shu ^a   Liu, Shou Heng ^a   Tsai, Tsai Tsung ^a   Lee, Shin Pin ^a   Tsang, Yun Chung ^a   Shieh, Chjeng Lun ^a   Tseng, Chih Ming ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

FORMOSAT 2 image; Landslide; Taiwan; Typhoon Morakot

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE PRECIPITATION; CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; FORMOSAT-2 IMAGE; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; MIOCENE; ROCK TYPES; SOUTHERN TAIWAN; STUDY AREAS; TAIWAN; TYPHOON MORAKOT;

HURRICANES;

LANDSLIDES;

EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; EOCENE; FORMOSAT-2; LANDSLIDE; MAPPING; MIOCENE; RAINFALL; TYPHOON;

TAIWAN;

EID: 80053894683     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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