Scaling and design of landslide and debris-flow experiments

Geomorphology

Volumn 244, Issue , 2015, Pages 9-20

  Iverson, Richard M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Debris flow; Dimensional analysis; Experiment; Landslide; Normalization; Scaling

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVITY FLOW; LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT;

EID: 84937970946     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.02.033     Document Type: Article

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