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34. Flowing - movement in the form of a flow of certain types of sandy-clayey rocks with disrupted structure (silty sands and clays, as well as loess-like silts and loesses) saturated with water to a fluid state, which spread out along bench platforms at an angle of 4 - 6° and less. Flowing develops quite intensively, often acquiring a catastrophic character
Source: "Instruction on monitoring deformations of benches, slopes of benches and dumps in quarries and development of measures to ensure their stability" (approved by the State Mining Inspection of the USSR July 21, 1970)