Heavy rainfall triggered loess-mudstone landslide and subsequent debris flow in Tianshui, China

Engineering Geology

Volumn 186, Issue , 2015, Pages 79-90

  Peng, Jianbing ^a   Fan, Zhongjie ^a   Wu, Di ^a   Zhuang, Jianqi ^a   Dai, Fuchu ^b   Chen, Wenwu ^c   Zhao, Cheng ^d  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Gansu Institute of Geo Environment Monitoring   (China)

Author keywords

Debris flow; Formation process; Heavy rainfall; Loess mudstone landslide

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; FLOW VELOCITY; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; PHOTOINTERPRETATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; VELOCITY;

ANTECEDENT RAINFALL; DEBRIS FLOWS; EFFECTIVE PARTICLE SIZE; FORMATION PROCESS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HEAVY RAINFALL; RAINFALL INTENSITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL LASER SCANNING;

RAIN;

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; DEBRIS FLOW; LANDSLIDE; LOESS; MUDSTONE; PEAK DISCHARGE; PEAK FLOW; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL;

CHINA; GANSU; TIANSHUI;

EID: 85028161252     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2014.08.015     Document Type: Article

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