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New article: Commentary on “The reduction of friction in long-runout landslides as an emergent phenomenon”

Article:  Louge, MY; Commentary on “The reduction of friction in long-runout landslides as an emergent phenomenon” by Brandon C. Johnson, Charles S. Campbell, and H. Jay Melosh, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 121 (5):1106-1107

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Abstract:  Johnson et al. (2016) use numerical simulations of disks to revisit the mystery of the struzstrom, a kind of landslide that travels an unexpectedly long distance on flat land, far beyond the mountain slope on which it initially accelerated.

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