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The Role of the Coefficient of Permeability K

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In this chapter it will be analysed the downward movement of water due to gravity, favoured by a permeability (K) more or less large, whereas the ascending, generally superficial, movement will be treated in the end for particular cases where even on jungle-like, intensely forested slopes (see Fig. 5.23 in Chap. 5) it is possible that there are plastic-rotational landslides that evolve in flows.

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Coppola, L. (2018). The Role of the Coefficient of Permeability K. In: Hydrogeological Instability in Cohesive Soils. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74331-8_6

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