mass wasting is most likely to occur on a slope.
mass wasting is most likely to occur on a slope.
where is mass wasting most likely to occur?
on a slope
one of the characteristics of the city terrain is mass wasting. on the territory covered by the general urban plan there are 1,155 recorded mass wasting points, out of which 602 are active and 248 are labeled as the 'high risk'. they cover almost 30% of the city territory and include several types of mass wasting. downhill creeps are located on the slopes above the rivers, mostly on the clay or loam soils, inclined between 7 and 20%. most critical ones are in karaburma, zvezdara, višnjica, vinča and ritopek, in the danube valley, and umka, and especially its neighbourhood of duboko, in the sava valley. they have moving and dormant phases, and some of them have been recorded for centuries. less active downhill creep areas include the entire terazije slope above the sava (kalemegdan, savamala), which can be seen by the inclination of the pobednik monument and the tower of the cathedral church, and the voždovac section, between banjica and autokomanda.
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mass wasting, also known as slope movement or mass movement, is the geomorphic process by which soil, sand, regolith, and rock move downslope typically as a solid, continuous or discontinuous mass, largely under the force of gravity, but frequently with characteristics of a flow as in debris flows and mudflows. types of mass wasting include creep, slides, flows, topples, and falls, each with its own characteristic features, and taking place over timescales from seconds to hundreds of years. mass wasting occurs on both terrestrial and submarine slopes, and has been observed on earth, mars, venus, and jupiter's moon io.
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