Mass Movement Landforms Flashcards

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Mass movement creates distinctive landforms including

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Rotational scars
Talus scree slopes
Terraced cliff profiles

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A rotational scar is:

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Curved
Un-weathered
Un-vegetated
Forms as a result of rotational slumping

The section that has detached is at the base of the cliff often with vegetation attached

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Talus scree slope
A talus scree slope is a

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fan-shaped mound of material

Made of block-fall debris which has accumulated at the foot of a cliff
Often, they have a concave profile

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Terraced cliff profile
The profile of the cliff is

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stepped
This is the result of the lithology or fractures in the rock

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t is important to remember that subaerial processes and the processes which occur at the foot of the cliff (erosion, transportation and deposition) work together to influence the recession rates.

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