Sentence examples for soil creep from inspiring English sources

In this way, they indirectly promote deep thaws that may result in soil creep on slopes.

This movement may be either slow (soil creep), rapid (debris flow or mudflow), or sometimes catastrophic (landslide).

This is where soil creep can occur.

This is probably because rain speeds up soil creep by stirring the soil and promoting vegetation growth.

Beyond the tipping point a dimensionless value between 250 and 300 incision overrides soil creep, Perron says.

Perron and colleagues guessed that a certain ratio between rates of incision and soil creep acts as a "tipping point" for the creation of river branches.

It was encased in a crust of soil creeping with a cotton wool fungus.

All geosynthetic materials used as soil reinforcements creep and it is necessary to obtain data on their creep behaviour before they can be used.

That something, it turns out, is the tension between two landscaping forces: the tendency of water runoff to carve streambeds and excavate valleys, and the tendency of soil to creep downhill, thereby rounding off hilltops and filling in those valleys.

Soil depth is calculated dynamically, accounting for soil production through weathering as well as downslope fluxes of soil due to creep, water and tillage erosion.

Soil and regolith creep have been analyzed for at least the last 140 years, using many methodological configurations and temporal and spatial scales.