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Luca, I., Tai, YC., Kuo, CY. (2016). Introduction. In: Shallow Geophysical Mass Flows down Arbitrary Topography. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02627-5_1
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