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It is useful to briefly consider other gravity-driven mass flows, and their differences and similarities with landslides. In this chapter we limit ourselves in illustrating a few basic facts about lava streams, ice avalanches, flash floods due to dam breaks, snow avalanches, and turbidity currents. A brief discussion on slow landslides is also included.
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De Blasio, F.V. (2011). Other Forms of Gravity Mass Flows with Potentially Hazardous Effects. In: Introduction to the Physics of Landslides. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1122-8_10
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