Landslide types

thumb|Mailboxes caught in a mudflow following the May 1980 Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption.

thumb|upright=1.35|Rockfall deposit, Afghanistan A rockfall or rock-fall is a quantity of rock that has fallen from a cliff face or from the roof or walls of mine or quarry workings.

geological phenomena in which water-laden masses of soil and fragmented rock rush down mountainsides

300px|thumb|Rockslide at Oddicombe Beach in Devon, UK thumb|Rockslides in Nigeria thumb|Landslips

landslides that transport sediment across the continental shelf and into the deep ocean