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Landslides Types and Their Failure Mechanisms

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This chapter explores the different peculiar aspects of the behaviour of soils subjected to landslide, and it discusses landslides with rotational plastic movement, both monotype and composite landslides .

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Coppola, L. (2018). Landslides Types and Their Failure Mechanisms. In: Hydrogeological Instability in Cohesive Soils. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74331-8_7

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