Progressive failure leading to the 3 December 2013 rockfall at Puigcercós scarp (Catalonia, Spain)

Landslides

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 585-595

  Royán, Manuel J ^a   Abellán, Antonio ^a,b   Vilaplana, Joan Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Laser scanner; Monitoring; Pre failure deformation; Precursory rockfall; Prediction; Rockfall

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DEFORMATION; FORECASTING; MONITORING; ROCK BURSTS; SLOPE STABILITY;

DEFORMATION PATTERN; LASER SCANNER; LONG TERM MONITORING; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; PRE-FAILURE DEFORMATIONS; PROGRESSIVE FAILURE; ROCKFALLS; STABILITY CONDITION;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIDAR; ROCKFALL;

CATALONIA; LERIDA [CATALONIA]; PUIGCERCOS CLIFF; SPAIN;

EID: 84930081921     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-015-0573-6     Document Type: Article

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