Field investigation and rockfall hazard zonation at the Shijing Mountains Sutra caves cultural heritage (China)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1897-1908

  Wang, Xueliang ^a   Zhang, Luqing ^a   Wang, Sijing ^a   Agliardi, Federico ^b   Frattini, Paolo ^b   Crosta, Giovanni B ^b   Yang, Zhifa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

China; Cultural heritage; Rockfall hazard; Sutra cave; Zonation simulation

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING LAYERS; CHINA; CULTURAL HERITAGES; DANGEROUS ZONE; DISTINCT ELEMENTS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FLEXIBLE BARRIER; IN-SITU; LASER PROFILERS; LIFE SAFETY; LOOSE MATERIALS; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; REMEDIAL MEASURES; ROCK BOLTS; ROCKFALL HAZARD; ROCKFALLS; RUNOUT DISTANCES; SAFE ZONES; SLOPE GEOMETRY; SLOPE PROFILE; UNSTABLE ROCK; ZONATION SIMULATION;

CAVES; SITE SELECTION;

ROCK BURSTS;

CLIFF; CULTURAL HERITAGE; FIELD METHOD; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HEALTH AND SAFETY; RELIGION; ROCK BLOCK; ROCKFALL; SLOPE ANGLE; ZONATION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; SHIJING MOUNTAIN;

EID: 84864110973     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1414-0     Document Type: Article

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