A new soil mechanics approach to quantify and predict land subsidence by peat compression

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 10,792-10,799

  Koster, Kay ^a,b   Erkens, Gilles ^a,c   Zwanenburg, Cor ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

coastal deltaic zone; Cone Penetration Testing; Holocene peat; land subsidence; soil mechanics

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; PEAT; SEA LEVEL; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL TESTING;

COASTAL PLAIN; CONE PENETRATION TESTING; CONE PENETRATION TESTS; CONE RESISTANCE; HOLOCENES; LAND SUBSIDENCE; SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA; THICKNESS REDUCTION;

SUBSIDENCE;

COASTAL ZONE; COMPRESSION; CONE PENETRATION TEST; HOLOCENE; LAND SURFACE; PEAT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOIL MECHANICS; SUBSIDENCE;

BORNEO; CALIFORNIA; INDONESIA; KALIMANTAN; NETHERLANDS; SACRAMENTO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84995588397     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071116     Document Type: Article

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