Briefly explain six factors influencing mass wasting.
Briefly explain six factors influencing mass wasting.
-The slope of the land-Steep slopes leads to faster movement of materials.
-The nature of material-Mass wasting occurs easily where massive rocks overlie sedimentary rocks which have clay material underneath and also if the material contains a lot of water.
-Climate-Heavy rainy periods encourage wasting
-Vegetation cover-It is easy and faster in bare ground than where it iscovered with vegetation.
-Human activities-Eg deforestation, building, quarring etc interferes with the stability of surface layers.
-Forces within the earths crust eg earth tremors and some volcanic eruptions.
