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Investigaciones geográficas
On-line version ISSN 2448-7279Print version ISSN 0188-4611
Abstract
ALCANTARA AYALA, Irasema. Landslides: ¿deslizamientos o movimientos del terreno? Definición, clasificaciones y terminología. Invest. Geog [online]. 2000, n.41, pp.7-25. ISSN 2448-7279.
The use of mass movement terminology in Spanish is the result of the direct translation from the English terms. This has created some confusion in the applicability of terms such as landslides. In this paper, a proposal is presented to conciliate those differences providing new terms in Spanish, which correspond to their real meaning in this language. In addition here I present a review of the associated nomenclature to the most important aspects of mass movement processes, and their corresponding explanation is also presented.
Keywords : Landslides; mass movement; nomenclature; Spanish terminology.