In humid regions, the abundant groundwater dissolves limestone bedrock by carbonation. Caves show evidence of ongoing limestone solution, in the form of stalactites and stalagmites, columns of calcite that form by dripping of percolated groundwater. Common in Kentucky, Florida. Slope processes and mass wasting. A. General comments 1.
Gravity is an agent of erosion and transport of rocks and regolith.
The resulting downward movement of materials is called mass wasting . Frequently, water interacts with gravity to produce mass wasting. After heavy rains, saturated hillslopes are heavier and subject to slope failure. Water often acts as a lubricant along the base of the mass movement. Gravity acts to restore oversteepened slopes to some stable angle.