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A landslide that results from the downward sliding of rock debris as a single mass, usually with a backward rotation relative to the slope along which the movement takes place.
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The formation of a landslide that develops where strong, resistant rocks overlie weak rocks.
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A landslide; the separation of a land or soil mass from a land surface and its movement downslope.
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the sliding downslope of a mass of sediment or rock by rotary motion along a concave upwards surface. The process can occur on land to produce landslips or beneath the sea to produce submarine slumps.
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Downslope movement in which a mass of regolith detaches from its substrate along a spoon-shaped sliding surface and slips downward semicoherently.
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the slow and gradual slippage of all layers of soil so that the bottom of a hillside becomes level with the lowlands or even tipped upward
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