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Weathering, Soil Erosion & Mass Wasting: Surface Processes Flashcards

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When rocks are breaking into smaller pieces whether physically or chemically

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Weathering

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happens when rocks break up into tiny pieces without a change in their composition

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Physical/Mechanical Weathering

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Causes: frost wedging, water action, thermal stress, salt crystal growth, pressure release, gravity, exfoliation, plants and animals

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Weathering

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Examples of Physical Weathering

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Frost weathering
Pressure-release
Abrasion
Organic Activity
Thermal expansion and contraction

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process in which water freezes in a crack and then the expansion edges the rock apart

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Frost weathering

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process wherein tectonic forces lift deeply buried rocks close to the surface and then erosion removes the overlying rock, removing the pressure and causing the rock to expand and fracture

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Pressure-release

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process of grinding and rounding rock surfaces by friction and impact caused by waves and glaciers

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Abrasion

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process in which a rock is expanded by plant roots or broken by animal and human activities

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Organic activity

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occurs when temperature changes rapidly, causing the surface of the rock to heat or cool

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Thermal expansion and contraction

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happens when rocks break down into tiny pieces and change the rock’s composition or internal structure of minerals

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Chemical weathering

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some of its causes are oxidation, leaching, hydration, and carbonation

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Chemical weathering

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Types of chemical weathering

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Dissolution
Hydrolysis
Oxidation

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process in which a mineral or rock dissolves in water forming a solution like halite dissolved water

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Dissolution

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process in which mineral reacts with water to forma new mineral that has water as part of its crystal structure like feldspar to clay

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Hydrolysis

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process in which a mineral decomposes when it reacts with oxygen like rusting of iron

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Oxidation

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surface process characterized by the removal of rock particles from where they were formed

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Soil Erosion

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due to some agents such as water, wind, waves, rain, and ice

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Soil erosion

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major and universal agent of soil erosion

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Running water

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Causes: gravity, human activities (mining, logging, kaingin, burning grassland, infrastructure, and animals)

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Soil Erosion

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why does soil erosion reduce soil fertility?

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because the topsoil which is rich in nutrients has been removed

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bad effects of soil erosion

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landslides, water shortages, deterioration of forests

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Human activities that causes soil erosion

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Kaingin farming or Burn method
Logging
Infrastructure projects
Mining
Overgrazing

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farmers that don’t own lands for farming cut down trees and burn an area for planting their crops

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Kaingin

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after year of planting, the soil loses its fertility and farmers move on to other areas to have another __ without replanting the area

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Kaingin

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cutting down of trees for industrial purposes, some do not follow government regulations and some practice illegal logging, destroying forest covers

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Logging

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construction of roads, bridges, dams, etc., may cause soil erosion because of poor planning, inadequate provisions for drainage

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Infrastructure Projects

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digs and loosen rocks in the mountains and expose large areas to weathering and erosion

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Mining

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occurs in areas where there are farms for livestock where plants are consumed and eventually disappear, losing soil cover that may protect the area from landslides and flooding

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Overgrazing

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Methods to reduce effects of soil erosion

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Rehabilitative method
Vegetative method
Mechanical method
Preventive Method

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used in badly eroded areas
involves the use of vegetation and engineering structure

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Rehabilitative method

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Vegetative Methods

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Cove cropping
Strip cropping
Contour tillage
Terracing

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bare lands are planted with crops/crop rotation

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Cover cropping

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cultivated and uncultivated areas are plated alternately in rows

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Strip cropping

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soil is tilled across and not along the slopes

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Contour tillage

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slows down the flow of water; it prevents the formation of gullies, retains run-off water and protects human settler

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Terracing

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Advantages of cover cropping

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Building soil health
Nutrient retention
Erosion control
Weed reduction

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Mechanical methods

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Riprapping
Farm ponds

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usually done on a slope, covered with rocks fitted and cemented together

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Riprapping

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constructed on land depressions or holes to collect water and store it during the rainy season

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Farm ponds

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used in slightly eroded areas
involves forest fire prevention, proper land use, forest management, proper road construction and education of the people

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Preventive Method

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considered as the most important agents of erosion
transports, deposits weathered materials and brought by floods

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Streams

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prolonged rainfalls over several days, when intense rain falls over a short period of time, or when an ice or debris jam causes a river or stream to overflow onto the surrounding area

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flood

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Flood controls

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dredging
dikes and levees
sandbagging during floods

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loss of lives and properties
damage to infrastructure
loss of crops
communication and transportation cutoffs

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Damaging effects of flood

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appears to be more continuous and predictable process that causes damage to some areas

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Shoreline erosion

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Ways to lessen the effects of shoreline erosion

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Building structures
Beach nourishment
Abandonment and relocation

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short walls built at a right angle to the shore to trap moving sand

48
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structures built parallel to the shoreline to protect it from the force of large breaking waves

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Breakwater

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barriers constructed to prevent waves from reaching the area behind the wall

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involves the addition of sand to replenish eroding beaches

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Beach Nourishment

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in the PH, mangroves are planted along coastal areas to protect shorelines

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Beach nourishment

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removing storm-damaged structures along the shorelines and reclaiming the beach or relocating the people and structures along the shorelines to safer or elevated areas

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Abandonment and Relocation

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thick ice mass that forms over hundreds or thousands of years

move very slowly and is a dynamic erosional agent that accumulate, transport and deposit sediments

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Types of glaciers

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Valley or Alpine glaciers
Ice sheets
Ice caps
Piedemont glaciers
Mountain glaciers
Cirque glaciers
Hanging glaciers
Tidewater glaciers

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glaciers that are found in lofty mountains that usually follow valleys originally occupied by streams

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Valley or Alpine glaciers

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mass of glacial ice of mroe than 50,000 km2

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Ice sheets

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contain about 99% of Earth’s fresh water

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Ice sheets

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aka Continental glaciers

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Ice sheets

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extend to the coast and over the ocean, they become ice shelves

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Ice sheets

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resemble ice sheets but are much smaller and occur in many places like Iceland and several islands in the Arctic Ocean

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occupy broad lowlands at the base of steep mountains and form when one or move valley glaciers emerge from the confining walls of mountains

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Piedmont glaciers

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built by repeated snowfalls that accumulate year after year without completely melting

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Mountain glaciers

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to have mountain glaciers’ buildup of snow, which eventually becomes glacial ice, two ingredients are required

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cold summers
heavy winter snow

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named for the bowl-like hollows they occupy

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Cirque glaciers

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found on mountainsides and tend to be wide rather than long

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Cirque glaciers

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aka ice aprons, these glaciers cling to steep mountainsides

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Hanging glaciers

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wider than they are long; these glaciers are common in the Alps (where they often cause avalanches due to the steep inclines they occupy)

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Hanging glaciers

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these glaciers flow far enough to reach out into sea; they are responsible for calving numerous small icebergs

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Tidewater glaciers

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Two ways glaciers erode lands

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Plucking
Abrasion

70
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as glacier flows over a fractured bedrock and incorporates them into the ice

71
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function like sandpaper to polish and smoothen the surface below. It is simply the grinding and scraping of rock surface

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the sediment deposited by a glacier

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Glacial till

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material left behind by a glacier by a moving glacier. This material is usually soil and rock

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movement of rock, soil, and regolith downward due to the action of gravity

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Mass wasting

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occurs on both terrestrial and submarine slopes

does not require a transporting medium like erosion

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slope movement

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Triggers

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Water
Super steel slopes
Earthquakes

77
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when pores in sediments become filled with __, the cohesion among particles is destroyed, allowing them to slide past one another with ease

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adds considerable weight to a mass of __ and the added weight in itself may be enough to cause the material to slide or move downslope

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trigger movements of unconsolidated granular materials

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Super steep slopes

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produces unstable slopes and mass movements in cohesive soils, regolith and bedrock

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Super steep slopes

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can dislodge enormous volumes of rocks and unconsolidated materials

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Earthquakes (and its aftershocks)

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Factors in mass wasting or slope movements

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Type of material
Type of motion
Rate of movement

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Type of material (factor of mass wasting)

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A. Debris and mud
B. Rock

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if soil and regolith dominate

type of material ( factor of mass wasting)

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Debris and mud

85
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when a mass of bedrock break, loose, and move downslope

Type of material (factor of mass wasting)

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Type of motion (factor of mass wasting)

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Fall
Slide
Flow

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when movement involves the free-fall of detached individual pieces of any size

common from movement on very steep slopes

Type of motion (factor of mass wasting)

88
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occur when material remains fairly coherent and moves along a well-defined surface

Type of motion (factor of mass wasting)

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occurs when a material moves downslope as a viscous fluid and most are saturated with water and typically move as lobes or tongues

Type of motion (factor of mass wasting)

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type of mass wasting that results in the sliding of coherent rock materials along a curved surface

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sliding of rock material down a mountain

more of a translational slide because it moves in a more uniform direction along a pre-existing plane, such as an underlying layer of rock

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Fast movement

rate of movement (factor of mass wasting)

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Slump
Rockslide
Debris flow
Earth flow

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movement of water-laden mass of loose mud, sand, soil, rock, and debris down a slope. It is mainly coarse-grained rock fragments

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Debris flow

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downslope movement of soil that has been saturated with water to the extent that the debris moves as a fluid. It is mostly fine grained sediment particles

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Earth flow

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imperceptibly slow, downslope movement of soil and earth material

often only few cm/yr, but the inevitability of it can severely impact shallowly-placed structures

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slow downhill flow of soil in arctic regions

occurs slowly and is measured in mm/yr or cm/yr

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Solifluction

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Slow movement

Rate of movement (factor of mass wasting)

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Creep
Solifluction

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Two ways glaciers flow

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Plastic flow
Basil slip

99
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movement within the ice

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Plastic flow

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occurs along the ground of the entire ice mass, the lowest portion of most glaciers are thought to move by sliding

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Basal slip

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generally quiet and slow

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Glacial movements

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some glaciers are characterized by periods of extremely rapid movements called __

103
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wettest place in the world

average annual rainfall of 117cm/yr

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Tutunedo, Colombia

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Tutuendo, Colombia has an average annual rainfall of

105
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has most rainy days per year

has up to 350 rainy days annually

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Moun Wai-ale’ale on Kauai, Hawaii

106
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Moun Wai-ale’ale on Kauai, Hawaii has up to __ rainy days annualy

107
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longest rainless period in the world was in __,__ which is __ years of no rain

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Chile, Africa; 14

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