Causes of landslide recurrence in a loess platform with respect to hydrological processes

Natural Hazards

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1657-1670

  Xu, Ling ^a   Qiao, Xiaojuan ^a,b   Wu, Caixia ^a   Iqbal, Javed ^a,c   Dai, Fuchu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Tobe Camp University Road Abbottabad   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Landslide; Loess Plateau; Topography

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LANDSLIDE; LOESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SLOPE; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84867229639     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0326-y     Document Type: Article

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