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ROCK AVALANCHES WITH COMPLEX RUN OUT AND EMPLACEMENT, KARAKORAM HIMALAYA, INNER ASIA

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Landslides from Massive Rock Slope Failure

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The paper concerns rock avalanches and their deposits reflecting strong interactions with rugged terrain, deformable and wet substrates. Of 186 rockslide-rock avalanche events identified in the Karakoram Himalaya, over 160 show singularities related to run out in rugged terrain.

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  1. Cold Regions Research Center and Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, Canada

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Stephen G. Evans

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Università degli Studi di Roma, ȘLa Sapienza’, Rome, Italy

    Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza

  3. Institute of the Geospheres Dynamics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Strom

  4. Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Reginald L. Hermanns

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HEWITT, K. (2006). ROCK AVALANCHES WITH COMPLEX RUN OUT AND EMPLACEMENT, KARAKORAM HIMALAYA, INNER ASIA. In: Evans, S.G., Mugnozza, G.S., Strom, A., Hermanns, R.L. (eds) Landslides from Massive Rock Slope Failure. NATO Science Series, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4037-5_28

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