mudflow
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- noun
- /ˈmʌdˌfloʊ/
:
flujo de lodo
- In regions prone to volcanic activity, a mudflow can occur quickly, causing significant damage to nearby communities.
Examples
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After the heavy rain, a sudden mudflow rushed down the mountainside, carrying trees and rocks with it.
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Their world was what it was: hot, harsh, mostly parched and bare, scoured by rains that turned the rivers into mudflows and uncovered bedrock to the sky.
Fiction book (1992) -
Survival on the mudflow was higher for large trees.
Academic text (1997) -
"There was a huge mudflow somewhere in South America when I was in high school," Sandy remembered.
Fiction book (2000) -
On the mudflows, deciduous trees that established as seedlings provided 100% cover by 1994.
Academic text (1997) -
The mosaic that was created, however, was coarse-grained, with large, isolated patches and linear mudflows.
Academic text (1997) -
Although much of the understory vegetation and small trees were washed away by the mudflows, large trees that were taller than the surface of the flow survived.
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Unconsolidated deposits of ash may eventually mix with water to become massive, quick-moving mudflows, called lahars, that can flow in small valleys.
Academic text (2003) -
Potential hazards other than flooding are: debris avalanches, mudflows, lava flows, hot gas surges, and ashfall.
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Seismic activity in the Soufriere Hills volcano, beginning in 1992, resulted in an explosive eruption in July 1995, followed by a series of pyroclastic mudflows that destroyed and buried most of Plymouth, the island's capital, by 1998.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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A large mass of mud that moves suddenly down a hill after heavy rain
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Etymology
The word mudflow is a simple combination of mud and flow, so picture a 'flow' or moving stream made of 'mud'. That's why mudflow means a fast movement of mud, soil and rocks down a slope, often after heavy rain or a volcanic eruption.