GG2021: GEOMORPHOLOGY
PROCESSES & LANDFORMS OF MASS MOVEMENT

e) Classification of Mass movement: Slides: Translational, Rotational; Falls;
Debris Flow; - mechanisms and forms.

gg.rhul.ac.uk/Thompson/teaching/GG2021/mass movt reading.doc



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Note added at 9 mins (2010-03-09 21:52:40 GMT)
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Mass Wasting Processes

Translational Landslides

Assuming a soil or rock cover over a failure plane where the failure plane is parallel to the slope, the forces at play in maintaining the stability of the soil / rock mass can be calculated.

http://people.hofstra.edu/J_B_Bennington/33notes/wasting_pro...

Port Noffer is the location for numerous shallow translational slides and flows above and within vegetated scree around most of the embayment. In addition, there are regular block falls from the cliffs and well-marked rotational failures and slides associated with the Inter-Basaltic Bed below Roveran Valley Head.

http://www.qub.ac.uk/geomaterials/weathering/causeway/keysit...