Evidence for repeated failure of the giant Yigong landslide on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau - Guo C, Montgomery DR, Zhang Y, Zhong N, Fan C, Wu R, Yang Z, Ding Y, Jin J, Yan Y.

Field surveys and radiocarbon dating of detrital materials provide evidence that repeated landslides dammed the Yigong Tsangpo River ca. 3500 BC, 1300 BC, 1000 BC, 600 BC, and twice more recently. Together with historical slides in 1900 and 2000, these six...
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