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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
A general term covering a wide variety of mass-movement landforms and processes involving the downslope transport, under gravitational influence, of soil and rock material en masse. Usually the displaced material moves over a relatively confined zone or surface of shear. The wide range of sites and structures, and of material properties affecting resistance to shear, result in a great range of landslide morphology, rates, patterns of movement, and scale. Landsliding is usually preceded, accompanied, and followed by perceptible creep along the surface of sliding and/or within the slide mass. Terminology designating landslide types generally refers to the landform as well as the process responsible for it; e.g., rockfall, translational slide, block glide, avalanche, mudflow, liquefaction slide, and slump.
Industry:Mining
A general term covering a wide variety of mass-movement landforms and processes involving the downslope transport, under gravitational influence, of soil and rock material en masse. Usually the displaced material moves over a relatively confined zone or surface of shear. The wide range of sites and structures, and of material properties affecting resistance to shear, result in a great range of landslide morphology, rates, patterns of movement, and scale. Landsliding is usually preceded, accompanied, and followed by perceptible creep along the surface of sliding and/or within the slide mass. Terminology designating landslide types generally refers to the landform as well as the process responsible for it; e.g., rockfall, translational slide, block glide, avalanche, mudflow, liquefaction slide, and slump.
Industry:Mining
A general term for a coarse-grained plutonic rock composed chiefly of olivine with or without other mafic minerals such as pyroxenes, amphiboles, or micas, and containing little or no feldspar. Accessory minerals of the spinel group are commonly present. Peridotite is commonly altered to serpentinite.
Industry:Mining
A general term for a decorative building stone that is hard and crystalline. It may be a granite, gneiss, syenite, monzonite, granodiorite, anorthosite, or larvikite.
Industry:Mining
A general term for a fold, warp, or bend in rock strata. A flexure may be broad and open, or small and closely compressed. Compare: monocline.
Industry:Mining
A general term for a fold, warp, or bend in rock strata. A flexure may be broad and open, or small and closely compressed. Compare: monocline.
Industry:Mining
A general term for a group of mixed rocks, which are the result of the injection of the crystallization products of intruding magmas into, and/or the mixture of such material with, the enclosing rocks, sedimentary or metamorphic. There are several varieties. The term is not widely used. Compare: migmatite.
Industry:Mining
