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The damage and the eventual breach of river embankments may be due to internal erosion and instability processes in the waterside and landside slopes. Beside the progressive degradation of soil properties, different types of macro-pores inside the levee body can influence its short- and long-term performance. Among macro-pores, burrows are a widespread form of biologic erosion of earthen structures...
Landslides are widespread along the north-western coast of the Island of Malta and are strictly linked to the structural setting. Exemplary cases of rock spreading and block sliding phenomena characterise this stretch of coast. They are favoured by the overposition of two different geological units widely outcropping there, the Blue Clay Formation and the Upper Coralline Limestone Formation. The latter...
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