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    Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity. It differs from other...
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    has demonstrated efficacy in preventing the loss of muscle mass in several muscle wasting conditions in humans, particularly sarcopenia. Based upon a...
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    wasting, also known as wasting syndrome, refers to the process by which a debilitating disease causes muscle and fat tissue to "waste" away. Wasting is...
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    it to even lower elevations. Mass-wasting processes are always occurring continuously on all slopes; some mass-wasting processes act very slowly; others...
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    Solifluction is a collective name for gradual processes in which a mass moves down a slope ("mass wasting") related to freeze-thaw activity. This is the standard...
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    surface, the process of mass wasting as a product of deep fluvial incision has the highest tectonic implications. Mass wasting is the geomorphic process...
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    Desert Island's loop road, as well as slumping along coastal bluffs. Mass wasting (slope movement) of marine clay, deposited when the sea level was much...
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    Jessica (2015). Tectonic and Aqueous Processes in the Formation of Mass-wasting Features on Mars and Earth (PhD). UCLA. Watkins, Jessica A.; Ehlmann...
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    A mudflow, also known as mudslide or mud flow, is a form of mass wasting involving fast-moving flow of debris and dirt that has become liquified by the...
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    A slump is a form of mass wasting that occurs when a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope...
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