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This activity contains 12 questions.

Look at this photo of a small mass movement event in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Discuss the several factors that likely contibuted to and/or caused this event. How would you classify this event? (Photo courtesy of John Aubert, copyright 2005)

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If you were to classify this example according to the terms presented in Chapter 13, would you describe this disturbance as a fall, a slide, a flow, or creep?

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Study this image of the Planina karst polge, in the Karst region of Slovenia. You know the general relationship between karst topography and surface drainage. What might explain the appearance and particular distribution of water across this landscape? [source]

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What evidence is there for the existence of sinkholes and collapse dolines in this region?

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This photograph shows the entrance to Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico). What type of rock are the caverns formed in, and what chemical weathering processes formed them? [Source]

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The tourists in the photograph are walking down a winding pathway linking the plain above the cavern with the base of a large pit where the cavern entrance is located. What type of karst landform feature is this pit, and how do you think it formed?

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Note the reddish-orange stains on the otherwise white limestone walls surrounding the entrance. What chemical process created them?

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What process created these distinct rock formations in Joshua Tree National Monument (California)? Describe it. [Source]

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What kind of rock is this, and what evidence for the interaction of weathering processes and joints in the rock can you see? Is the weathering process helped or hindered by jointing? How?

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The light-colored areas in this photograph of the Santa Susana Mountains (California) are the scars of mass movements triggered by the Northridge earthquake that struck Los Angeles in 1994. What type of mass movement do you think these were? Explain. [source]

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In terms of the dynamic equilibrium model, why do you think so many landslides occurred at the same time?

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What type of mass movement is shown in this photograph? What obvious human landscape modification has created or enhanced the risk of this type of mass movement hazard? [Source]

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