Detachment failure

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Term: Detachment failure
Definition: A slope failure in which the thawed or thawing portion of the active layer detaches from the underlying frozen material
GCW IPAPermafrost
Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
Contributed by GCW Glossary
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