Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Types of mass movement
- Slow
- Soil Creep
- Soil particles pushed/heaved to surface by wetting, heating or freezing of water
- Manger in Vale, Whitehorse, Oxfordshire
- Rain Splash Erosion
- Raindrops compact the soil + dislodge particles EQUALLY
in all directions
- Cold, periglacial environments
- Flow
- Surface Wash
- when soil's infiltration capacity is exceeded +
can lead to formation of gullies
- semi-arid regions
- Sheet Wash
- The unchannelled flow of water over a soil surface
- Boscastle floods, 2004
- Throughflow
- Water moving down through soil
- Fast
- Slides
- material maintains its shape+cohesion until it impacts at bottom
of slope+leads to large, slumped terraces
- Vaiont Dam, Italy
- Falls
- Occur on steep slopes
- Wastwater, Lake district
- Slumps
- Occurs on weaker rocks, (clay), +have a rotational
movement along a curved slip plane
- Holbeck hall hotel, Scarborough