This group collects the Landform Concepts subcategory's members that name and define landforms shaped by gravity acting on a steep slope: couloirs, flared slopes, steilhang and the alcoves and sandfalls that mass movement and rockfall carve into a hillside or cliff face. This is the subcategory's smallest group, defined by gravity-driven slope processes rather than by the erosive agents, ice, water or wind, that shape the subcategory's larger groups.
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Defining ProcessMass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity. 1 All Slope and Mass-Movement Landforms
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Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity.
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