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mass wasting  

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  • Mass wasting is a term for a wide variety of motions of rock, debris, earth, and organic matter that are moved downhill by gravity with various fluids entrained, such as water and air as well as ice. The concept of mass wasting is commonly supplanted by several other terms, such as mass movement or slope failure, and it also includes a tremendous diversity of things such as the various forms of creep, talus accumulation, flow of dry loess, burst of wet peat bogs, or block streams and rock glaciers as well. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Mass Wasting]

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