Why is mass wasting important?

Answer 1

When the gravitational force acting on a slope exceeds its resisting force, slope failure (mass wasting) occurs. The slope material's strength and cohesion and the amount of internal friction between material help maintain the slope's stability and are known collectively as the slope's shear strength. The steepest angle that a cohesionless slope can maintain without losing its stability is known as its angle of repose. When a slope possesses this angle, its shear strength perfectly counterbalances the force of gravity acting upon it. Mass wasting may occur at a very slow rate, particularly in areas that are very dry or those areas that receive sufficient rainfall such that vegetation has stabilised the surface. It may also occur at very high speed, such as in rock slides or landslides, with disastrous consequences, both immediate and delayed, e.g., resulting from the formation of landslide dams. Factors that change the potential of mass wasting include: change in slope angle; weakening of material by weathering; increased water content; changes in vegetation cover; and overloading.

Answer 2

mass wasting is the geomorphic process by which soil,sand,regolith, and rocks move downslope under the force of gravity without the aid of of transporting medium such as water,ice,wind,orwind.Mass-wasting is part of a continuum of erosional processes between the weathering and stream transport.Mass-wasting causes regolith to move down-slope where sooner or later the lose particles will be picked up by another transpoting agent and eventually moved to a site of deposition such as oceans, basin or lake bed.

• it helps hold the object in a place of the slope.
• causes the a spear of stress parallel to the slope and helps to move the the object down will move down slope.

Answer 3

Mass wasting is basically the movement of rock and soil down a slope or hill under the influence of gravity. Some examples are Rock falls, slumps and debris flow.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Mass wasting is when someone wasts mass.