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Stream of liquid earth
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mudflow
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A mudflow or mud flow is a form of mass wasting involving "very rapid to extremely rapid surging flow" of debris that has become partially or fully liquified by the addition of significant amounts of water to the source material. Mudflows contain a significant ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water. 2 The dried-out product of such a flow. Also called mudslide, mudspate.
Usage examples of mudflow.
We recognize that, with objects of all sizes falling out of the sky, with the surface rebounding, slumping and reconfiguring itself after each impact, and with ancient water and mudflows and modern windborne sand sculpting the surface, a wide variety of landforms must be generated.
It lies in a landscape where many low hills have been moulded into odd forms, perhaps by some mixture of ancient mudflows and subsequent wind erosion.
For hours, they picked their way forward through the maze of paths that terminated abruptly in mudflow, forcing them to double back and find a new path, then following that one forward until it, too, gave out.