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Discussion of “Biological Considerations in Geotechnical Engineering” by James K. Mitchell and J. Carlos Santamarina

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Volume 133, Issue 4
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A. Fýrat Çabalar
Research Student, School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, Univ. of Southampton, U.K.; and, Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Gaziantep, Turkey.

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