The Mass Wasting Module is divided into three sections. Without Chris, none of them would ever be finished! They follow, along with the topics they discuss.
 

• Mass Wasting Processes
 
• Weathering
• Decomposition
• Flows
• Rockfalls
• Slides & Slumps
• Creep
• Glacial & Stream Transport
• Causes & Countermeasures
• Numerous Movies and Actual Incident Depictions
• Slides & Slumps
 
• Force Vectors acting on a block
• Shear Stress & Frictional Resistance
• Factor of Safety
• Geometry of a slump
• Hazard Maps
 
• A comprehensive exercise which involves using risk assessment to develop a hazard map.

	Lahar flow movies		Forces acting on a block
	Hazard Map Exercise		Searchable Glossary

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