EFFECTS OF MASS MOVEMENTS

EFFECTS OF MASS WASTING.
Mass wasting results into number of effects both to environment and human being. Such effects include the following:

• Formation of scars. It occurs when materials breaks away from hillside. When a slump occurs, they leave behind scars on the land.
• Soil erosion. It is a process where it occurs following formation of scars as a starting point for soil erosion.
• Formation of new landforms. Where mass wasting takes place may results into the formation of various landforms such as barrier lakes.
• Changing of river course sometimes mass wasting may results into the changes of river direction of flows. Example mud flow in the Rif atlas mountains of Morocco pushed the course of river Rhesana 100 metres to the east. 
• Damage to property: where it occurs it causes damages to property. Some mass wasting destroys telephone lines, roads, railway lines, fences, hedges and stone walls.
• Loss of life: some form of mass wasting can result in the loss of life. Example avalanches when it occurs it always claims the life of many people.