Multiple Choice
Which of the following factors are how geologists, engineers, and others classifying mass wasting?
A) viscosity, shear strength, translational movement
B) rate of movement, shear strength, gravity
C) type of material, shear strength
D) rate of movement, type of material, type of movement
E) gravity, shear strength, slip motion
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