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MASS WASTING

A. INTRODUCTION

• driving framework: destructive process

• helps wear the landscape down

• driven by gravity

• classification based on type and speed of movement, and type of material moved

B. CREEP  

C. ROCKFALLS

D. LANDSLIDES    

E. FLOWS

photo credit: D.R.. Crandell, USGS

F. SUMMARY

• gravity driven process that helps wear the landscape down

• creep, falls, slides, flows