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| | NSSH Part 629 - Glossary, H-M | NRCS Soils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21) |
 | | The main operational categories of mass movement are fall (rockfall, soil fall, topple), slide (rotational landslide, block glide, debris slide, lateral spread), flow [rock fragment flow (especially rockfall avalanche), debris avalanche, debris flow (e.g., lahar), earthflow, (creep, mudflow)], and complex landslides. |
 | | It is composed chiefly of rock fragments derived from valley walls by glacial abrasion and plucking, or colluvial accumulation from adjacent slopes. |
 | | medial moraine - (a) An elongate moraine carried in or upon the middle of a glacier and parallel to its sides, usually formed by the merging of adjacent and inner lateral moraines below the junction of two coalescing valley glaciers. |
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