Although a volcanic origin cannot be ruled out for all or part of the smooth plains material, it is more probably a mixture of ejecta from very small craters and colluvium mass wasted from crater walls.
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It is seen on submarine as well as surface volcanoes : Loihi in the Hawaiian volcanic chain and Kick'em Jenny in the Caribbean volcanic arc are two submarine volcanoes that are known to undergo mass wasting.
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The formation of submarine canyons is believed to occur as the result of at least two main process : 1 ) erosion by turbidity current erosion; and 2 ) slumping and mass wasting of the continental slope.
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During this period, with the exception of a scattering of extremely fresh craters and some minor mass wasting ( Malin and Dzurisin, 1977 ), almost no geologic activity has occurred near the mercurian south pole.
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While erosion in all of its forms, by definition, wears away material from the Earth's surface, the process of mass wasting as a product of deep fluvial incision has the highest tectonic implications.
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The program is used in the field of civil engineering to analyze levees, earth dams, natural slopes, tailings dams, heap leach piles, waste rock piles, and anywhere there is concern for mass wasting.
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The first concern is the stabilization of the ground as the entire western slope of the ridge descending to the Sava is a mass wasting area ( the leaning of the Cathedral Church is already visible from a distance ).
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The floating boulders, which are several metres in diameter, have evolved as result of debris deposits from pro-glacial interaction, mass wasting from hills surrounding the lake and the displacement of glacial ice by lake ice.
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About of roads have been built in the Tye River basin, resulting in a road density approaching and in places surpassing the threshold where damage to the watershed may occur through road effects on slope hydrology and mass wasting.
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Currently, I'm researching the Sand Hills ( Nebraska ) for a world geologic location and hazard research assignment, and I'm exploring the geologic origins and proneness to mass wasting of these ancient sand dunes.
