Giant rockslides from the inside

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 389, Issue , 2014, Pages 62-73

  Weidinger, Johannes T ^a,b   Korup, Oliver ^c   Munack, Henry ^c   Altenberger, Uwe ^c   Dunning, Stuart A ^d   Tippelt, Gerold ^a   Lottermoser, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b Erkudok Institute   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breccia; Frictional melt; Landslide; M ssbauer spectroscopy; Petrography; Pseudotachylyte

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; FRICTION; LANDSLIDES; PETROGRAPHY; ROCK BURSTS; ROCK MECHANICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS; TERMINOLOGY;

BRECCIA; FRICTIONAL MELTS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; MASS-WASTING EVENTS; PSEUDOTACHYLYTES; SSBAUER SPECTROSCOPIES; TERMINOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

ROCKS;

BRECCIA; LANDSLIDE; MELANGE; MELT; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; PETROGRAPHY; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; ROCK MECHANICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EID: 84891765990     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.12.017     Document Type: Article

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