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Mass Movement (wasting)

Mudflow in Pacific Palisades, CA 
threatens housing.

Mass movement or wasting is the down slope movement of earth material under the influence of gravity sometimes aided by water. Mass movement includes creep, earth flows, landslides, slumps, and falls.

 

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