mudflow
nounEtymology From mud + flow.
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A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water.
- Some believe an earthquake set off the disaster, others that the mudflow was caused by a company drilling for natural gas.2015 September 21, Rachel Nuwer, “Indonesia’s ‘Mud Volcano’ and Nine Years of Debate About Its Muck”, in The New York Times:
- [A] rockflow involving at least 1.5 million m3 of material moved down the Uchau-Su river valley into the sea within a day. Some mudflows are so viscous that they come to a halt in the stream channel. On slopes, soilflow or earthflow depend[…]2020 May 11, Alistair F. Pitty, Introduction to Geomorphology, Routledge, →ISBN:
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The dried-out product of such a flow.