mass wasting

Dislodgement and downslope transport of loose rock and soil material under the direct influence of gravitational body stresses.

Related terms:

• Mass Wasting (also Mass Movement)
• mass erosion
• Wasting Natural Resources
• air mass
• water mass
• optical air mass
• thermal ionization mass spectrometry
• inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
• Ground Mass
• laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS)