Did the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake lead to a net volume loss?

Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment: Volume 3: Targeted Landslides

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 191-196

  Xu, Chong ^a   Xu, Xiwei ^a   Gorum, Tolga ^b   Van Westen, Cees J ^b   Fan, Xuanmei ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84938693559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04996-0_30     Document Type: Chapter

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