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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-3589-2012
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-3589-2012
© Author(s) 2012. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
| 
06 Dec 2012
Research article |
| 06 Dec 2012
Ground instability in the old town of Agrigento (Italy) depicted by on-site investigations and Persistent Scatterers data
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
now at: British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK
C. Ventisette
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
G. Gigli
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
F. Menna
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
F. Agili
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
V. Liguori
Department of Civil, Environmental and Aerospace Engineering, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
N. Casagli
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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