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The Dating of Landslides

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It is often necessary to date the landslides not only to trace the causes of the failure of a slope but essentially to define the environmental factors interacting in the process of changing the natural environment .

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Coppola, L. (2018). The Dating of Landslides. In: Hydrogeological Instability in Cohesive Soils. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74331-8_3

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