Whether it be small and slow, or large and quick, mass wasting can be a major cause of loss of property and sometimes even life. According to Keller and DeVecchio, mass wasting is the movement of earth materials down a slope.(217) Mass wasting can refer to rockfalls, debris flows and avalanches, but for the sake of time, I'll mainly be speaking about landslides.
A landslide can be classified as either falling, sliding, slumping, flow or creep:
Sliding: As large rocks travel downhill, they loosen up other smaller rocks, rushing everything on the way down
Falling: Rocks are falling from the face of a cliff
Slumping: Rocks or soil is falling down a curved slope
Flow: Particles are moving downhill in a large, mixed up mass, like avalanches and earth flows
Creep: An extremely slow rate of flowage
that is all true but what about the UK?...tell us a bit about their mass wasting events...
ReplyDeleteDoes the Uk have any types of landslides? I've never heard of one there but but that doesn't mean they don't happen. Now I'm curious.
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