Kauaʻi record · KCA-EP-0037
Mass wasting and landslides
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About Mass wasting and landslides
Downslope movement of soil, regolith and rock during saturation, erosion or slope failure.
Names and classification
- Other names
- mass wasting; landslides
- Family
- Soil, Substrate, Erosion & Sediment Dynamics
- Record type
- ecological_process
Habitat and ecology
- Ecological role
- Supports Atlas reasoning about ecosystem function, dependencies, threats, conservation leverage points and cross-module consequences.
Process and seasonal context
- Definition
- Downslope movement of soil, regolith and rock during saturation, erosion or slope failure.
- Drivers
- rainfall; slope; vegetation; soil properties; waves; currents; disturbance
- Inputs
- rock; soil; sediment; organic matter
- Outputs
- soil; suspended sediment; deposited sediment; coastal sand
- Spatial scales
- soil patch → slope → watershed → coast
- Temporal scales
- event → centuries
- Validity and limits
- Context-specific; do not extrapolate across habitat, season, elevation, salinity or disturbance state without evidence.