GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Surface creep is the slow downhill movement of soil and rock debris. It is usually not perceptible except through extended observation. The term can also describe the rolling of soil particles by wind along soil surface.

Detailed explanation-2: -Creep-the very slow, usually continuous movement of regolith down slope. Creep occurs on almost all slopes, but the rates vary.

Detailed explanation-3: -Creep-is a very slow, continuous, downslope movement of soil or unconsolidated debris. Earthflow-debris moves downslope as a viscous fluid. Solifluction-is the flow of water-saturated debris over impermeable material.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mass wasting is the downhill movement of rock and soil material due to gravity. The term landslide is often used as a synonym for mass wasting, but mass wasting is a much broader term referring to all movement downslope.

Detailed explanation-5: -creep, in geology, slow downslope movement of particles that occurs on every slope covered with loose, weathered material. Even soil covered with close-knit sod creeps downslope, as indicated by slow but persistent tilting of trees, poles, gravestones, and other objects set into the ground on hillsides.