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Mass Movement
Term | Definition |
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Deposition | The process in which sediment is laid down in new locations |
Erosion | The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rock and soil |
Sediment | Earth´s materials deposited by erosion |
Creep | The very slow downhill movement of rock and soil |
Slump | When a mass of rock and soil suddenly slips down a slope in one large mass |
Mudslide | The rapid downhill movement of a mixture of water, rock, and soil |
Landslide | The most destructive kind of mass movement which occurs when rock and soil slide quickly down a steep slope |
Mass Movement | Any one of several processes by which gravity moves sediment downhill |
Gravity | The force that moves rocks and other materials downhill |