Quantitative assessment of landslide susceptibility along the Xianshuihe fault zone, Tibetan Plateau, China

Geomorphology

Volumn 248, Issue , 2015, Pages 93-110

  Guo, Changbao ^a,b   Montgomery, David R ^c   Zhang, Yongshuang ^a,b   Wang, Ke ^a   Yang, Zhihua ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Active fault; GIS; Landslide; Landslide susceptibility; Xianshuihe fault

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; LANDSLIDE; QUATERNARY; SLIP; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIANSHUIHE FAULT ZONE;

EID: 84938635627     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.07.012     Document Type: Article

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