Rainfall seeps in making at saturated slips down - on slip/slide plane the end of the moved material is called a toe: where it feel/slipped is called a scar
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Surface wash
Soil becomes saturated
Water flows and moves small particles into river, across the surface
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Falls
Rocks weather due to freeze-thaw rock is fractured and falls downwards steep slope - 70 C
Rapid but doesn't contain much moisture because it has ice
Can accumulate as a scree slope - large angular rocks
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Slides
Weathering losens materials causing slides down the side plan
Sliding material maintain its shape and cohesion untill it impacts at bottom of a slope and leads to large, scumped terrances.
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