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earthflows

earthflows is the plural of earthflow.

Meaning of earthflow

Noun

earthflow (plural earthflows)

  1. A downslope viscous flow of fine-grained materials that have been saturated with water, moving under the pull of gravity.
    • [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
    Synonyms:
    soilflow

Questions about earthflows

What is earthflows the plural of?
Earthflows is the plural of earthflow.

Words near earthflows in the dictionary

  1. earthfast
  2. earthflax
  3. earthfloor
  4. earthfloors
  5. earthflow
  6. earthflows
  7. Earthfolk
  8. earthful
  9. earthfuls
  10. earthgirl
  11. earthgirls

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