Distinguish between :

Earth flow and Mud flow.

Solution

Earth flow	Mud flow
In hilly and mountainous regions of humid climates, water saturated soil and regolith rich in clay matters takes the form of an earth flow. Earth flow is a form of mass wasting in which behaviour of the earth material is that of a plastic solid. Solifluction is an Arctic variety of earth flow in the treeless tundra.	Mass wasting takes the form of mud flow if proportion of water to mineral matter is large. It travels fast down the channels of stream. Mud flow also originate high in mountains where melting winter snows pick up weathered rocks rich in clay.

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