Landslides, threshold slopes, and the survival of relict terrain in the wake of the Mendocino Triple Junction

Geology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 363-366

  Bennett, Georgina L ^a,d   Miller, Scott R ^b   Roering, Joshua J ^a   Schmidt, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CATCHMENTS; EROSION; LANDFORMS; WAKES;

AERIAL IMAGERY; COARSE SEDIMENT; HAZARD POTENTIAL; LANDSLIDE EROSION; MENDOCINO TRIPLE JUNCTIONS; SEDIMENT FLUX; SLOPE ANGLES; TIME-SCALES;

LANDSLIDES;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; EXHUMATION; HILLSLOPE; LANDSLIDE; PLATE MOTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC MIGRATION; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84966431249     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G37530.1     Document Type: Article

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