Trenching and Exposed Faces

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages 138-149

  McCalpin, J P ^a  

^a GEO HAZ Consulting Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Landslide; Paleoseismology; Sackung; Sinkhole; Trenching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903409960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00379-1     Document Type: Chapter

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