RPI has had problems in the past with the instability of the ground on the hillside, a phenomenon known as mass wasting.
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Sedimentary breccia consists of angular, poorly sorted, immature fragments of rocks in a finer grained groundmass which are produced by mass wasting.
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Weathering, mass wasting and water runoff can soon wear down these bluffs, sometimes resulting in V-shaped valleys along runoff channels.
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Mudflows are often called " mudslides ", a term applied indiscriminately by the mass media to a variety of mass wasting events.
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As the bluff's base is destroyed, earth slips down the bluff's entire face, in an example of mass wasting.
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Mass wasting, slumping, and submarine landslides are forms of slope failures ( the effect of gravity on a hillslope ) observed in submarine canyons.
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Cirques form from freeze-thaw cycles of meltwater in the rocks above the glacier, and by glacial erosion and mass wasting occurring under the glacier.
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Endogenous processes such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and plate tectonics uplift and expose continental crust to the exogenous processes of weathering, erosion, and mass wasting.
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The program is used in the field of civil engineering to analyze levees, earth dams, natural slopes, and anywhere there is concern for mass wasting.
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It is " a striking example of mass wasting ( the movement of large masses of earth material ) . " Lake San Cristobal was dammed by the earthflow.
