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Landslides are of different types and include different geological phenomena.
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You can have slides, topples, flows. Falls, creeps, and lateral spread that are sometimes all called landslides, even though they aren’t.
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Certain mass movements are rapid, such as landslides, while others are slow, such as creeps.
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The physics of earth, debris, and water determine what type of land mass movement you see.
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Avalanches involve snow and ice. There are several different types of avalanches.
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