Earth slip
As Earth slip or landslide (also: Berg Schlipfkrapfen or only Schlipfkrapfen ) refers to heavily soaked loose masses of embankments under tearing of the vegetation come off at the edges in a block. The vegetation holds the block together itself. Landslides therefore only occur in small areas, for example in meadows. Like all landslides , they arise when water-soaked layers lie over water-impermeable layers (e.g. marl on clay ). For example, after extensive rainfall, spontaneous landslides occur. Interventions in the vegetation, such as deforestation or surface changes (e.g. terrain cuts for roads) favor mobilization up to debris flow and landslide.
A landslide has a demolition niche at the top (in the picture: A) in which the subsoil becomes visible. Underneath is the slideway with most of the slope material that has slipped, and underneath is the slid mass that has been pushed together (in the picture the slope has slipped into the river).
Schlipf always occurs in the same place, which is why Schlipf also occurs in many field names . Slip areas are regions with an increased risk potential.
See also
Web links
- Lexicon of Geography - Erdschlipf , Magazine Spectrum of Science, accessed 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Landslides - Article in the learning portal for an introduction to physical geography, PG-Net project, Free University of Berlin