Sentence examples for earthflow from inspiring English sources
noun
A downslope viscous flow of fine-grained materials that have been saturated with water, moving under the pull of gravity.
One active earthflow was also sampled.
The active earthflow and unmetamorphosed rock samples primarily contain smectite.
It started as a catastrophic rotational blockslide and turned into an earthflow in the distal part of the landslide.
Considering the decision rules, the proper ratios of UCU free from earthflow (0) / UCU including the earthflow (1) for the Agustu, Egerci and Kelemen catchments were obtained as 3, 6, and 5, respectively.
The earthflow intensity is the highest in the Agustu catchment (0.038 flow/UCU) and lowest in the Egerci catchment (0.0035 flow/UCU).
The regression equations from the selected ratios were then applied to the entire catchment and the earthflow susceptibility maps were produced.
Besides the reactivation of many previously delineated landslides, thousands of small-scale landslides (mostly the earthflow type) occurred all over the region.
It incorporates landslide, gully, earthflow erosion, surficial erosion, bank erosion, and flood-plain deposition, the important forms of soil erosion in New Zealand.
The purposes of the present study are to put forward the spatial distributions of the shallow earthflows triggered, to describe the possible factors conditioning the earthflows, and to produce the shallow earthflow susceptibility maps of the three catchments.
Averaged sediment yield (~ 1.6 x 103 t/km2/yr) compares well with similar studies on earthflow-dominated landscapes, despite notable differences in methodology.
But others, like Slumgullion--which is technically known as an earthflow--move at a sluggish but inexorable pace.
