Gravitational creep of rock masses on slopes

Developments in Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue PA, 1978, Pages 607-657

  Radbruch Hall, Dorothy H ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-41507-3.50025-8     Document Type: Chapter

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