Catastrophic movement of rocks and proposed solutions to avoid its risks in the abu el-reesh area, northeast aswan city, egypt

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 607-616

  Emam, Ashraf ^a   El Fakharani, Abdel Hamid S ^a   Felesteen, Adel W ^a   Selim, Sayed A ^a   Hafez, Kamal M ^b  

^a ASWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Abu el reesh; Aswan; Catastrophic mass movement; El khalasab; Risks

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027917651     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-010-0201-7     Document Type: Article

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