Large ice-contact slope movements: Glacial buttressing, deformation and erosion

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1102-1115

  Mccoll, Samuel T ^a   Davies, Timothy R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Debuttressing; Glacial erosion; Gravitational deformation; Landslide; Paraglacial

Indexed keywords

DEBUTTRESSING; EROSIONAL PROCESS; GEOMORPHIC MAPPING; GLACIAL EROSION; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; MOVEMENT MONITORING; PARAGLACIAL; STABILITY FACTOR;

DEFORMATION; EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDSLIDES;

ICE;

DEFORMATION; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LANDSLIDE; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84880507979     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3346     Document Type: Article

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