Title
Stability Problems of Talus in Iquitos, Peru.
Other title
Problemas de estabilidad de Taludes en Iquitos, Perú
Date Issued
01 December 1983
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Canadian Geotechnical Soc
Abstract
An analysis is presented of the stability conditions on the Amazon river-bank near the Iquitos port in Peru. A possible failure mechanism, which has caused continuous slipping of the tropical soils under difficult conditions of climate and geology, has been established.
Start page
459
End page
471
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geotecnia
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0020896574
Resource of which it is part
WorldCat
ISBN of the container
0919305385
DOI of the container
Proceedings of the Seventh Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, PAN AM'83
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