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Seismotectonics and dam construction

Seismotectonique et construction des barrages

  • IAEG Symposium “Engineering Geological Problems in Hydrotechnical Contruction”, Tbilisi (USSR), 12–19 September 1979
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Oborn, L.E. Seismotectonics and dam construction. Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology 20, 94–105 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02591256

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