The complex nature of creep movements on steeply sloping ground in Southern Rwanda |
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| Authors: | Jan Moeyersons |
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| Institution: | Royal Museum of Central Africa, B-1980 Tervuren, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Long term soil creep motion is often represented as a type of laminar flow, with velocity vectors parallel to the slope and constant in time. Records on a hillslope in Southern Rwanda reveal that creep movements there compare more with turbulent flow, characterized by a A1 humic horizon superlayer, creeping over a subsoil affected by more irregular creep deformation. |
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| Keywords: | Creep Young-pit Creep line Slide plane |
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