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Our knowledge of the rheology of debris flows is unsatisfactory: a number of different models have been proposed but they lack experimental justification, or are theoretically unsatisfactory, or both. A correct approach to rheology must be based on a description of the evolution of the microstructure. In this paper we present a brief review of the fundamental rheological characteristics of various natural suspensions of clay and coarse particles in water. We define the physical boundary conditions which may be useful for dividing the suspensions in terms of clearly different qualitative behaviour.
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Coussot, P., Piau, JM. (1994). Some considerations on debris flow rheology. In: Ergenzinger, P., Schmidt, KH. (eds) Dynamics and Geomorphology of Mountain Rivers. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0117848
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