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A suggested method for reporting landslide causes

Proposition d'une méthode pour rendre compte des causes des glissements de terrain

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A brief list of landslide causal factors is presented and a format for reporting landslide causes is suggested. They make useful additions to the Landslide Report proposed by the International Geotechnical Societies' UNESCO Working Party on World Landslide Inventory.

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L'auteur présente une brève liste des causes des glissements de terrain et suggère un, système de référence destiné à rendre compte de ces causes. Cette liste et ce système constituent un complément utile au «Compte rendu sur un glissement de terrain» proposé par le Comité de Travail de l'UNESCO pour l'Inventaire mondial des glissements de terrain, établi par les Sociétés Internationales de Géotechnique.

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  1. Civil Engineering Institute, The International Geotechnical Societies' UNESCO Working Party on World Landslide Inventory, P.O. Box 2.45, 78172, Bucharest 2, Romania

    M. E. Popescu (Chairman of the Working Group on Causes of Landslides)

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Popescu, M.E. A suggested method for reporting landslide causes. Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology 50, 71–74 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02594958

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