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coasts-mass movement
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- 1Rock fallWater seeps into cracks in a cliff face and freeze-thaw causes pieces of rock fall away and collect in a scree slope at the bottom
- 2slideCracks in bedding planes allow water to infiltrate the ground and lubricate the planes so that the pieces of rock slide down. Rock-slides large pieces of rock whereas mudslides contain much smaller and wetter debris.
- 3slumpImpermeable material underneath a soluble material on a cliff face. The soluble material saturates with water and becomes heavier causing slip-planes to develop in the cliff and when it becomes to heavy it will give way and the cliff face will slump rotating into itself .
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- GCSE Geography Flashcards on coasts-mass movement, created by Gabriel Keen on 05/11/2017.
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