Enhanced rock-slope failure following ice-sheet deglaciation: Timing and causes

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 900-913

  Ballantyne, Colin K ^a   Wilson, Peter ^b   Gheorghiu, Delia ^c   Rodés, Àngel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Palaeoseismicity; Paraglacial; Rock slope failure; Stress release; Surface exposure dating

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ROCKS; SLOPE STABILITY; UNLOADING;

COMPETING MODELS; FRACTURED ROCK MASS; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; PALAEOSEISMICITY; PARAGLACIAL; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; STRESS RELEASE; SURFACE EXPOSURE DATING;

ICE;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; DATING METHOD; DEBRIS FLOW; DEGLACIATION; FAILURE MECHANISM; GLACIATION; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOISOSTASY; ICE SHEET; MASS MOVEMENT; PALEOSEISMICITY; PERMAFROST; PLEISTOCENE; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY;

LOCH LOMOND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84901913621     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3495     Document Type: Article

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