Earth flow

Japanese: earth flow(英語表記)earthflow
Earth flow


[Rapid Flow]
When a large amount of water is suddenly added to fine-grained sediments such as volcanic ash, sand, and clay, or to a layer of rock debris that contains a lot of these materials, due to rainfall, melting snow, groundwater seepage, or volcanic activity, a high-velocity flow of slope material occurs. Depending on the nature of the material and the amount of water content, they are classified as earth flows, mud flows, debris flows, and debris avalanches. All of them occur temporarily and unevenly. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "earth flow" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[急速な流動]
 火山灰や砂,粘土など細粒の堆積物やそれらを多く含んだ岩屑層に,降雨,融雪,地下水の湧出,火山活動などで急に多量の水が加わると,速度の大きな斜面物質の流動が起こる。物質の性質と含水量の多少によって土砂流earth flow,泥流mud flow,土石流,岩屑なだれdebris avalancheに分けられる。いずれもその発生は一時的かつ偏在的である。…

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