Slope processes and related risk appearance within the Icelandic Westfjords during the twentieth century
In North-western Iceland, records of slope processes were increasing during the twentieth century. Few dramatic events during the last decades highlighted the danger due to slope dynamics, leaving local populations in a risk situation that was merely unknown before 1970. The recent snow-avalanche, d...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2005-01-01
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Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
Online Access: | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/5/309/2005/nhess-5-309-2005.pdf |