Vegetation

This picture is taken in genting highlands.The picture shows how terracing and vegetation can help prevent mass movement. The terracing allows the steep slope to be more stable by lowering the gradient to produce more stable angles. The vegetation on the terraces provides anchoring effects, and prevents the soil from being unconsolidated by binding together soil particles and holding soil to bedrock with their roots, this helps to prevent the initial stages of soil erosion.

Vegetation also absorbs water, decreasing the water saturation limit of the float material. However, vegetation can also destabilize slopes. Vegetation exposed to the wind transmits dynamic forces into the slope it also increases infiltration and thus may increase pore pressure.

Done By : Tan Yi Ting, 2AD2