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1. Description of a Mud-slide at Malta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

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A large quantity of mud, dredged up from the harbour of Valetta, having been deposited on a piece of slightly-inclined ground, and having been subsequently moistened to an excessive extent by rain, and by the overflow of a neighbouring tank, the upper parts began to flow down over the lower and the original boundary, in six distinct streams; this separation being apparently caused by the difference of resistance and level of the under stratum.

Type
Proceedings 1848-49
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1850

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