Seismic mountain building: Landslides associated with the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in the context of a generalized model for earthquake volume balance

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 833-844

  Li, Gen ^a   West, A Joshua ^a   Densmore, Alexander L ^b   Jin, Zhangdong ^c   Parker, Robert N ^d   Hilton, Robert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DEFORMATION; EROSION; FAULTING; LANDSLIDES; LITHOLOGY;

2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKES; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; FAULT-RUPTURE PARAMETERS; LANDSLIDE INVENTORIES; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; LANDSLIDE; MASS WASTING; MOUNTAIN REGION; PARAMETERIZATION; POWER LAW; REMOTE SENSING; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

EID: 84899141446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC005067     Document Type: Article

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