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Mechanism of landslides
Karl Terzaghi
Mechanism of landslides (in Application of geology to engineering practice; Berkey volume, Sidney Paige (editor))
Geological Society of America, New York, NY, United States (1950) 83-123
Mechanism of landslides (in Application of geology to engineering practice; Berkey volume, Sidney Paige (editor))
Geological Society of America, New York, NY, United States (1950) 83-123
Index Terms/Descriptors
- cohesionless materials
- creep
- drawdown
- dynamics
- earthquakes
- engineering properties
- failures
- friction
- geologic hazards
- landslides
- liquefaction
- mass movements
- mechanism
- natural hazards
- potentiometric surface
- precursors
- preventive measures
- rainfall
- rock mechanics
- saturation
- seepage
- shear stress
- slope stability
- soil mechanics
- water
Title: Mechanism of landslides
Title: Application of geology to engineering practice; Berkey volume
Affiliation: Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA,
United States
Pages: 83-123
Published: 1950
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America,
New York, NY,
United States
ISBN: 978-0-8137-5941-8
References: 40
Accession Number: 2015-099169
Categories: Engineering geology
Document Type: Book
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. 1 table, sects.
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute.
Update Code: 201542
