The Role of Initial Soil Conditions in Shallow Landslide Triggering: Insights from Physically Based Approaches

Figure 3

(a) Locations of the 21 samples collected on Monte Mario; (b) the sampling stage; (c) borehole for the evaluation of the soil cover thickness. The location of the three boreholes is marked in green in Figure (a); (d) test for density and unit weight of soil in place by the sand cone method.

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