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Unloading joints and rockfalls in Norway's fiordlands |
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| Authors: | Tony Waltham |
| Institution: | Senior Lecturer in the Civil Engineering Division, Nottingham Trent University |
| Abstract: | When overburden is removed by erosion, rock relaxes towards the surface and develops new fractures. These are then the focus of slope failures that are common and sometimes disastrous in Norway's mountain regions. |
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