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- Mass_wasting abstract "Mass wasting, also known as slope movement or mass movement, is the geomorphic process by which soil, sand, regolith, and rock move downslope typically as a mass, largely under the force of gravity, but frequently affected by water and water content as in submarine environments and mudslides. Types of mass wasting include creep, slides, flows, topples, and falls, each with its own characteristic features, and taking place over timescales from seconds to years. Mass wasting occurs on both terrestrial and submarine slopes, and has been observed on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter's moon Io.When the gravitational force acting on a slope exceeds its resisting force, slope failure (mass wasting) occurs. The slope material's strength and cohesion and the amount of internal friction between material help maintain the slope's stability and are known collectively as the slope's shear strength. The steepest angle that a cohesionless slope can maintain without losing its stability is known as its angle of repose. When a slope possesses this angle, its shear strength perfectly counterbalances the force of gravity acting upon it.Mass wasting may occur at a very slow rate, particularly in areas that are very dry or those areas that receive sufficient rainfall such that vegetation has stabilized the surface. It may also occur at very high speed, such as in rock slides or landslides, with disastrous consequences, both immediate and delayed, e.g., resulting from the formation of landslide dams.Factors that change the potential of mass wasting include: change in slope angle, weakening of material by weathering, increased water content; changes in vegetation cover, and overloading.Volcano flanks can become over-steep resulting in instability and mass wasting. It is now a recognised feature in the growth of all active volcanoes. It is seen on submarine as well as sub-aerial volcanoes - Loihi in the Hawaiian volcanic chain, Kick 'em Jenny in the Caribbean volcanic arc are two submarine volcanoes that are known to undergo mass wasting. The failure of the northern flank of Mount St Helens in 1980 showed how rapidly the flank was able to deform and fail.".
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- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Angle_of_repose.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Avalanche.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Bioturbation.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Category:Environmental_soil_science.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geological_hazards.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geomorphology.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landslides.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Cohesion_(chemistry).
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Debris_flow.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Downhill_creep.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Earth.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Earth_flow.
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- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Earthquake.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Earthworks_(engineering).
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- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Geomorphology.
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- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Io_(moon).
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- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Lahar.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Lahars.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Landslide.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Landslide_dam.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Landslides.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Loihi.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Lōʻihi_Seamount.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Mars.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Mount_St._Helens.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Mount_St_Helens.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Mudflow.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Mudslide.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Regolith.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Rock_(geology).
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Rockfall.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink SMR_classification.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Sand.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Sand_art_and_play.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Sand_castle.
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- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Shear_strength_(soil).
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- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Sturzstrom.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Terracette.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Terracettes.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Vegetation.
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLink Venus.
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- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mass movement".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mass wasting".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "downslope regolith movement".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "gravity flow".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "hillslopes".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "landslides".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "mass failures".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "mass ground movements".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "mass movement".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "mass movements".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "mass wasting".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "mass-wasting".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "movement".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "mudslides".
- Mass_wasting wikiPageWikiLinkText "rotational slip".
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- Mass_wasting subject Category:Environmental_soil_science.
- Mass_wasting subject Category:Geological_hazards.
- Mass_wasting subject Category:Geomorphology.
- Mass_wasting subject Category:Landslides.
- Mass_wasting hypernym Process.
- Mass_wasting type Election.
- Mass_wasting type Hazard.
- Mass_wasting type Science.
- Mass_wasting type Subfield.
- Mass_wasting comment "Mass wasting, also known as slope movement or mass movement, is the geomorphic process by which soil, sand, regolith, and rock move downslope typically as a mass, largely under the force of gravity, but frequently affected by water and water content as in submarine environments and mudslides. Types of mass wasting include creep, slides, flows, topples, and falls, each with its own characteristic features, and taking place over timescales from seconds to years.".
- Mass_wasting label "Mass wasting".
- Mass_wasting sameAs Category:Mass_movements.
- Mass_wasting sameAs Mas-symudiad.