Impacts of post-glacial rebound on landslide spatial distribution at a regional scale in northern Iceland (Skagafjörur)

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 336-350

  Cossart, Etienne ^a   Mercier, Denis ^b   Decaulne, Armelle ^b   Feuillet, Thierry ^b   Jónsson, Helgi Páll ^c   Sæmundsson, Thornorsteinn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c Geoscience ^*  (Iceland)

Author keywords

Hillslope processes; Iceland; Mass movements; Para glacial; Post glacial rebound; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

HILLSLOPES; ICELANDS; MASS MOVEMENT; PARA-GLACIAL; POST-GLACIAL REBOUND; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

LANDSLIDES; LITHOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DEGLACIATION; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; HILLSLOPE; HOLOCENE; LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE STABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ICELAND; SKAGAFJORDUR;

EID: 84896722187     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3450     Document Type: Article

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