Natural DisastersSlumps

By Brooks Fackrell

Example of Slumps

Pic one*

Slumps, what are they?

Slumps are basically a huge piece of rock and dirt that move and drop from the mountain into a pringle like shape

What really happened

• The following is the pictures I have personally taken of what I viewed as “slumps”

• They are suppose to have a “pringle like” way of looking on the mountain, as you will see, these do not look that way.

DISAPPOINTMENT

• That was very disappointing wasn’t it?

• Well now it goes on to the boring stuff, how they are formed, blah blah blah, you know the drill.

Forming procedures

• What happens is as nature is doing it’s thing, the earth and ground start to move due to erosion, water, etc.

• Sometimes in this process instead of creating a major land slide like you think, the slumps, which is a form of land slide, are formed.

Cont

• They basically keep everything in tact, while the mountain might have a 45 degree angle on it, when the slump is formed it looks as if the trees and everything on the slump goes with it.

• That means that the trees that were once at an angle, now appear to be perfectly straight.

Closing

• So basically what they are supposed to look like is this,

• Not this

Pic two*

Pic one• https://www.google.com/search?

q=Geology+slumps&biw=1366&bih=643&tbm=isch&imgil=XgRKwFBBDktLzM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcReq_FLMANrTIanXGJ7GypxjmiEC4QOpOvwUZbaTshujc9iOQys3w%253B550%253B400%253BskmeX0RWIbtI-M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.geology.ohio-state.edu%25252F~vonfrese%25252Fgs100%25252Flect18%25252F&source=iu&usg=__0PpmlqOos6Yt_fbMQki9LzD6R2Y%3D&sa=X&ei=Qi9oU8fnLYGJogS-64DgBA&ved=0CIcBEP4dMA0#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=XgRKwFBBDktLzM%253A%3BskmeX0RWIbtI-M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.geology.ohio-state.edu%252F~vonfrese%252Fgs100%252Flect18%252Fxfig18_03.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.geology.ohio-state.edu%252F~vonfrese%252Fgs100%252Flect18%252F%3B550%3B400

Pic two• https://www.google.com/search?

q=Geology+slumps&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Qi9oU8fnLYGJogS-64DgBA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=600#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=loTKX0_zMKEiiM%253A%3ByhCxTdAcfs3UjM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fscience.kqed.org%252Fquest%252Ffiles%252F2012%252F06%252Flandslide-slump.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fscience.kqed.org%252Fquest%252F2012%252F06%252F14%252Fdid-you-see-it-report-a-landslide-online%252F%3B500%3B301