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Mass movements are significant geological processes which have an important impact on human life. They are environmental hazards, both on land and in the sea, and justify intensive attention. Much research has been related to human or industrial loss and welfare, and the importance of further efforts cannot be underestimated. The effects on modern communities of avalanches, major rock falls and mudslides are well known from recent catastrophies (Bolt et al. 1975; Press and Siever 1978; Voight 1978a; Brunsden and Prior 1984), and mass movements can seriously affect the stability of offshore installations (Prior & Coleman 1982). The importance in the context of this book is that mass movements present a very widespread situation in which sediments are subject to deformation.
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Martinsen, O. (1994). Mass movements. In: Maltman, A. (eds) The Geological Deformation of Sediments. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0731-0_5
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