MGT - Management MGT 4350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Mass Wasting, Regolith, Viscosity
30 Mar 2020
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Mass wasting, additionally known as slope movement or mass movement, is the geomorphic technique by means of which soil, sand and rock move down slope as a mass, below the force of gravity. In mass losing, several factors and processes make contributions to the downward movement of rock fabric under the force of gravity. Sometime they have got disastrous outcomes at the neighborhood environment. The aggregate of small actions of soil or rock in special instructions over the years are directed through gravity step by step downslope. More the slope could be steep faster may be the motion of creeps. The creep makes trees and shrubs curve to preserve their perpendicularity, and they can trigger landslides in the event that they lose their root footing. The floor soil can migrate below the influence of cycles of freezing and thawing, or hot and cold temperatures, inching its manner toward the lowest of the slope forming terracotta"s.
