Ice thawing, mountains falling-are alpine rock slope failures increasing

Geology Today

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 98-104

  Huggel, C ^a   Allen, S ^b   Deline, P ^c   Fischer, L ^d   Noetzli, J ^a   Ravanel, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

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EID: 84861490006     PISSN: 02666979     EISSN: 13652451     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2451.2012.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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