A Late Holocene deep-seated landslide in the northern French Pyrenees

Geomorphology

Volumn 208, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Lebourg, T ^a   Zerathe, S ^a   Fabre, R ^b   Giuliano, J ^a,c   Vidal, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b University Bordeaux I2M UMR CNRS 5295   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coseismic triggering; Cosmic ray exposure dating; Deep seated landslide; Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; COSMIC RAY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LANDSLIDE; PALEOCLIMATE;

PYRENEES;

EID: 84893794379     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.11.008     Document Type: Article

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