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The origin of mountains lakes’ dams is the source of much discussion among researchers. The most common interpretation is that gravitational phenomena on valley slopes are the primary source of such dams. Moreover, the biggest dams are interpreted as seismically triggered events, resulting in estimates of very high past seismicity rates for areas where such dams are located. Nevertheless, many big mountain river dams have the glacial origin, although the shape of such dams are the same like gravitational phenomena.
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Ischuk, N. (2013). The Origin of the Mountain River Dams in Tajikistan. In: Margottini, C., Canuti, P., Sassa, K. (eds) Landslide Science and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31319-6_2
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