Predicting locations of post-fire debris-flow erosion in the San Gabriel Mountains of southern California

Natural Hazards

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1305-1321

  Gartner, J E ^a,b,c   Santi, P M ^b   Cannon, S H ^c  

^a BGC ENGINEERING INC   (Canada)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Debris flow; Hazard assessment; Logistic regression; Post fire erosion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940002382     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1656-3     Document Type: Article

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