Landslides in a loess platform, North-West China

Landslides

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 993-1005

  Xu, Ling ^a,e,f   Dai, Fuchu ^a   Tu, Xinbin ^a   Tham, Leslie George ^b   Zhou, Yufeng ^c   Iqbal, Javed ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^d Tobe Camp University Road Abbottabad   (Pakistan)

^e Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

^f BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural irrigation; Chinese Loess Plateau; Landslide characteristics

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; REGIONAL PLANNING;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; BEDDING PLANES; BEDROCK LANDSLIDES; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; SLOPE ASPECT; UNSATURATED SOIL; URBAN AND RURAL; WATER TABLES;

SEDIMENTS;

BEDDING PLANE; BEDROCK; CLAY SOIL; FAILURE ANALYSIS; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LANDSLIDE; LOESS; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER TABLE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84911807526     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-013-0445-x     Document Type: Article

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