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Landslide inventorization and susceptibility mapping in South Africa

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  1. Engineering Geoscience Unit, Council for Geoscience, Private Bag X112, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

    Souleymane Diop, Colin Forbes & Goodman S. Chiliza

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Diop, S., Forbes, C. & Chiliza, G.S. Landslide inventorization and susceptibility mapping in South Africa. Landslides 7, 207–210 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-009-0186-z

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