mudflow

English

Etymology

From mud +‎ flow.

Noun

mudflow (plural mudflows)

1. A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water.
   • 2015 September 21, Rachel Nuwer, “Indonesia’s ‘Mud Volcano’ and Nine Years of Debate About Its Muck”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Some believe an earthquake set off the disaster, others that the mudflow was caused by a company drilling for natural gas.

   • 2020 May 11, Alistair F. Pitty, Introduction to Geomorphology, Routledge, →ISBN:

     [A] rockflow involving at least 1.5 million m3 of material moved down the Uchau-Su river valley into the sea within a day. Some mudflows are so viscous that they come to a halt in the stream channel. On slopes, soilflow or earthflow depend […]

2. The dried-out product of such a flow.

Synonyms

• mudslide
• mudspate

Translations

A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water

• Armenian: սելավ (hy) (selav)
• Esperanto: kotofluo
• Georgian: ღვარცოფი (ɣvarcopi)
• German: Murgang m, Mure (de) f
• Japanese: 泥流 (ja) (でいりゅう, deiryū)
• Malayalam: ഉരുൾപൊട്ടൽ (ml) (uruḷpoṭṭal)
• Russian: сель (ru) m (selʹ)
• Swedish: slamström (sv) c
• Tagalog: agos-putik

The dried-out product of such a flow