Transient water and sediment storage of the decaying landslide dams induced by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China

Geomorphology

Volumn 171-172, Issue , 2012, Pages 58-68

  Fan, Xuanmei ^a,b   van Westen, Cees J ^b   Korup, Oliver ^c   Gorum, Tolga ^b   Xu, Qiang ^a   Dai, Fuchu ^d   Huang, Runqiu ^a   Wang, Gonghui ^e  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Landslide dam; Magnitude and frequency; Sediment budget

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; LANDSLIDE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OUTBURST; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SLOPE FAILURE;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84865557173     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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