Relationships between landslide types and topographic attributes in a loess catchment, China

Journal of Mountain Science

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 742-751

  Zhang, Fanyur ^a   Chen, Wenwu ^a   Liu, Gao ^a   Liang, Shouyun ^a   Kang, Chao ^b   He, Faguo ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

GIS; Loess catchment; Movement types; Shallow landslides; Topographic attributes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870754507     PISSN: 16726316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11629-012-2377-7     Document Type: Article

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