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SINKHOLE
What are landslides and sinkholes?
What causes them?
What the different types of landslide and sinkhole?
What are the precautionary and safety measures for
landslide?
Based on:
TYPE OF MATERIAL| Rock, Earth, Soil, Mud and Debris
TYPE OF MOVEMENT | Fall, Topple, Slide, Spread, Flow
Varne’s Classification of Slope Movement
Type of Movement
Type of Movement
Varne’s Classification of Slope Movement
Varne’s Classification of Slope Movement
Complex
Landslide
SIGNS
STRUCTURES:
sinkholes are common where the rock below the land surface
is limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds, or rocks that can
naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating through
them
as the rock dissolves, spaces and caverns develop
underground that if there is not enough support for the land
above the spaces, then a sudden collapse of the land surface
can occur
Sinkholes
Sinkholes: Karst Topography
TWO PROCESSES THAT CREATE
SINKHOLES