Boundary stresses due to impacts from dry granular flows

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Yohannes, Bereket ^a   Hsu, L ^b,c   Dietrich, W E ^b   Hill, K M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; DEBRIS FLOW; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; EROSION RATE; GRAIN SIZE; GRANULAR MEDIUM; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRESS;

EID: 84861674696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002150     Document Type: Article

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