Soil creep is a slow, downslope movement and is the result of a number 
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of factors including climate. Rock is shattered by contraction and 
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expansion during winter and is moved to the surface by the heaving effect 
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of frost. When spring thaws the loosened rock, it moves down the slope, 
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dragging along anything that is planted in it.