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      • Trees with curved trunks are often signs that the hillside is slowly creeping downhill. Creepis the imperceptibly slow, steady, downward movement of slope-forming soil or rock. Movement is caused by shear stress sufficient to produce permanent deformation, but too small to produce shear failure.
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  2. 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.

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  3. Dec 26, 2021 · 10.4: Creep. The expressive term creep is used for all slow downslope movements of regolith under the pull of gravity that are so slow as to be imperceptible except to observations with long duration (days to weeks in the case of solifluction; years to decades to centuries in the case of slower creep).

  4. Creep is the imperceptibly slow, steady, downward movement of slope-forming soil or rock. Movement is caused by shear stress sufficient to produce permanent deformation, but too small to produce shear failure.

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    Jan 1, 2014 · Definition. Creep is the slow deformation of rock, debris, soil, or ice. Introduction. Regarding geomorphological processes, creep or flow, respectively, is one form of mass movement and may occur in bedrock (e.g., sagging, Sackung), debris (e.g., rock glacier), as well as soil (e.g., solifluction) (Dikau et al., 1996 ).

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    Feb 7, 2023 · Creep is the gradual downslope displacement of regolith due to gravity, commonly with the aid of ground disturbance. (Note the distinction from the broader definition used in mechanics, in which creep refers more generally to permanent deformation of a material in response to stress).

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    Jan 1, 2016 · Creep is defined as a semi-continuous, time-dependent deformation of solids which occurs at a low rate, under stress imposed by gravity. In Earth Sciences, creep of rock, soil, and frozen ground are distinguished.

  8. In materials science, creep (sometimes called cold flow) is the tendency of a solid material to undergo slow deformation while subject to persistent mechanical stresses. It can occur as a result of long-term exposure to high levels of stress that are still below the yield strength of the material.

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