mudflow

From mud + flow.

mudflow (plural mudflows)

1. A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water.
   • 2015 September 21, Rachel Nuwer, “Indonesia’s ‘Mud Volcano’ and Nine Years of Debate About Its Muck”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Some believe an earthquake set off the disaster, others that the mudflow was caused by a company drilling for natural gas.

   • 2020 May 11, Alistair F. Pitty, Introduction to Geomorphology, Routledge, →ISBN:

     [A] rockflow involving at least 1.5 million m3 of material moved down the Uchau-Su river valley into the sea within a day. Some mudflows are so viscous that they come to a halt in the stream channel. On slopes, soilflow or earthflow depend […]

2. The dried-out product of such a flow.

• mudslide
• mudspate