Debris-Flow Runout and Deposition on the Fan

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 75-93

  Rickenmann, Dieter ^a   Scheidl, Christian ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Debris Flow; Hyperconcentrated Flow; Runout Distance; Snow Avalanche; Total Travel Distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885057332     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4336-6_5     Document Type: Chapter

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