Giant palaeo-landslide dammed the Yangtze river

Field evidence is presented to demonstrate that a very large landslide blocked the Jinsha River (the main stem of the Yangtze) near the present day town of Qiaojia, Yunnan Province. The discovery is significant because no persistent river-blocking landslide has been reported so far downstream in a m...

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Main Authors: Higgitt, David L., Zhang, Xinbao, Liu, Weiming, Tang, Qiang, He, Xiubin, Ferrant, Sylvain
Format: Article
Published: SpringerOpen 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47254/