mass movement

C8192
concept

Mass movement is the downslope transport of soil, rock, and debris under the direct influence of gravity, often occurring rapidly and sometimes catastrophically.

All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
mass movement canonical 8
landslide 4
landslip 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: mass movement
Generated description
Mass movement is the downslope transport of soil, rock, and debris under the direct influence of gravity, often occurring rapidly and sometimes catastrophically.

Instances (17)

Instance Via concept surface
RSS
surface form: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Quiraing landslip
Up to the mountains and down to the countryside movement
surface form: Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement
Benedictus
Total Revolution movement
Estonian Popular Front
Batagaika crater megaslump
Huascarán
surface form: 1970 Ancash earthquake avalanche
landslide
IRAA
Casita
surface form: 1998 Casita landslide
landslide
Cultural Revolution
Olympus Mons aureole landslide deposit
The Quiraing landslip
Tiananmen Square protests of 1976
Gros Ventre Range
surface form: Gros Ventre landslide of 1925
landslide
Gjerdrum quick clay landslide of 2020 landslide
Payatas
surface form: Payatas landslide
garbage dump landslide