Evidence of Self-Organized Criticality in riverbank mass failures: A matter of perspective?

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 953-964

  Croke, Jacky ^a,b   Denham, Robert ^b   Thompson, Chris ^a   Grove, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bank erosion; Lockyer Valley; Queensland; Self Organized Criticality (SOC); Wet flow mass failures

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); FLOODS;

BANK EROSION; LOCKYER VALLEY; MASS FAILURES; QUEENSLAND; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY;

PILES;

BANK EROSION; CRITICAL STATE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOOD; MASS MOVEMENT; RIVER BANK;

AUSTRALIA; LOCKYER VALLEY; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84930179234     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3688     Document Type: Article

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