A slurry of rock, sand, water flowing downslope; water usually makes up less than half of the flow volume
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A slurry of rock, sand, water flowing downslope; water usually makes up less than half of the flow volume
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Debris Flow
General Knowledge
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Indicates the severity of an earthquake in terms of the damage that it inflicts on structures and people
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Indicates the severity of an earthquake in terms of the damage that it inflicts on structures and people
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Intensity Scale -
Ice that crystallizes in pores between grains of sediment
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Ice that crystallizes in pores between grains of sediment
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Interstitial Ice -
Boundary where plates are moving towards each other
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Boundary where plates are moving towards each other
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Convergent -
Developed 1953l based on maximum amplitude of earthquake waves recorded on a Wood Anderson Seismograph
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Developed 1953l based on maximum amplitude of earthquake waves recorded on a Wood Anderson Seismograph
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Richter Magnitude Scale -
A fan shaped deposit of sand and gravel at the mouth of a mountain canyon where the stream gradient flattens at main valley floor
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A fan shaped deposit of sand and gravel at the mouth of a mountain canyon where the stream gradient flattens at main valley floor
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Alluvial Fan -
The total area inundated by the tsunami
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The total area inundated by the tsunami
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Run-out distance -
A ground depression caused by collapse into an underground cavern
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A ground depression caused by collapse into an underground cavern
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Sinkhole -
Volcanic dome composed of rhyolite and rhyodacite
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Volcanic dome composed of rhyolite and rhyodacite
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Rhyolite Dome -
Form as sediment is deposited in the slower waters on the inside of the meander bends
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Form as sediment is deposited in the slower waters on the inside of the meander bends
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Point bar