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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.