Landslides along the north-west coast of the island of malta

Landslide Science and Practice: Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-63

  Devoto, Stefano ^a   Biolchi, Sara ^a   Bruschi, Viola Maria ^b   Díez, Alberto González ^b   Mantovani, Matteo ^c   Pasuto, Alessandro ^c   Piacentini, Daniela ^a   Schembri, John A ^d   Soldati, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Coastal geomorphology; Landslides; Malta; Rock spreading

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; HAZARDS; LIME; STRATIGRAPHY;

AERIAL PHOTO INTERPRETATION; COASTAL LANDSLIDES; ENGINEERING GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS; LANDSLIDE MONITORING; MALTA; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; SPECIFIC SITES; STRUCTURAL FACTOR;

LANDSLIDES;

EID: 84898073360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31325-7_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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