List and describe the various classes of mass movement
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The four classes of mass movement are fall, slide, flow, and creep. Rockfall and debris avalanches are examples of fall—mass movement of rock and debris downslope under the force of gravity. Landslides, the sudden rapid movement of an unsaturated cohesive mass of regolith or bedrock is an example of a slide, as is slump. The preponderance of water in the moving materials, such as mudflows and earthflows, are examples of flows. Finally, soil creep, the slow gradual movement of soil particles downslope, is an example of creep.
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