Geohazards analysis of Pisa tunnel in a fractured incompetent rocks in Zagros Mountains, Iran

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1101-1112

  Safari, Hojjat Ollah ^a   Pirasteh, Saeid ^d   Pradhan, Biswajeet ^b   Amid, Hossein ^c  

^a GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Deformations; GIS; Incompetent rocks; Remote sensing; Tunnel; Zagros belt

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE; GEOLOGICAL HAZARD; GROUNDWATER; MARL; REMOTE SENSING; SOFTWARE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TUNNEL;

ZAGROS;

EID: 84874950153     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-011-0427-z     Document Type: Article

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