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What are the four factors of mass wasting?
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Type of material, rate of movement, nature of moving mass, surroundings
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What is mass wasting?
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A large movement of mass down a slope
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What is creep?
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slow downhill movement of grains
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What is solifluction?
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Slow downhill movement of permafrost layer
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What is slumping?
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Downhill sliding of coherent blocks
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What causes mass movements?
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slope forces, weakening material, fragmentation, jointing/faulting, weathering
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What is the angle of repose?
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Steepest angle at which particles will not go down slope
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What is the difference between a debris flow and a mud flow?
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Mud is fine sediment while debris flow is large rocks
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8 landslide triggers
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shocks, vibration, liquefaction, steepening, loading, changes in characteristics, slope strength, tectonic processes
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