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Land slide or mudslide

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Q: What is rock and soil slide downhill called?
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The downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity?

deposition or erosion


What are the four types of mass movement?

Mass movement (also known as mass wasting) can be any of four types of motions :creep (objects lean downhill over many years)slump (rock and soil slip down a hill in one large mass)slides (landslides : rock and soil slide downhill)flows (mudslides and mudflows: rock and soil mixed with water slides downhill)Under some definitions, there are two other types, which do not involve "flows" of material. They are :topples (rock pivots off a slope)falls (rock separates and falls without flowing)


Downhill shifting of rock and soil because of gravity?

eroison


What is the very slow downhill movement of rock and soil?

creep


What is the downhill movement of rock or soil?

erosion or mass movement


When rock and soil fall downhill?

When it gets loosened from the surface of the hill.


What is the slow downhill movement of rock and soil caused by gravity?

Landslide or landslip.


What occurs when path and bits of rock and soil fall downhill?

Slump


What is as you step on the mountains path bits of rock and soil fall downhill?

landslide


What is the slow downhill mass movement of rock and soil caused by gravity?

Landslide or landslip.


What can rush downhill as a huge mass of soil?

It can be called a landslide.


Is a landslide formed by erosion deposition or weathering?

Usually by erosion, although weathered rocks can split off to trigger a slide. A landslide is the downhill motion of loose rock and soil, sometimes entire layers of a mountainside.