Englands/UK Mass Movements

Coastal areas of England encounter some mass movements, especially since it rains quite frequently near the shore. There is not much history of mass movements occurring in the UK because the soil is healthier because of a combination of mass amounts of rain and sunlight that it receives yearly. There are very few mass movements that have occurred along the England shore. Some background information about the shorelines of England and why the mass movements don't occur as much is because "the scree fragments move downhill under gravity, with new pebbles and boulders being added each year... the slopes extend out beneath the lake (England’s deepest), which was itself formed by glacial erosion during the Ice Ages that ended about 10,000 years ago." The mass movements do not occur much anymore like it used to thousands of years ago because the slops extend under England's deepest lake which is rock solid. Within that setting of the lake "the rocks here are volcanic – ancient lavas and ash-flows that erupted almost 500 million years ago." Essentially the mass movements cannot occur because the volcanic rock is so old and is basically extinct, which prevents rocks, soil, and debris from sloping from gravity.

If you are a resident of England, there is no need to worry about mass movements because none of them has occurred for a long period of time (thousands of years). Though there was one discovery "sandstones higher up Mam Tor overlies weak mudstones (beneath the road). Rainwater seeps through the sandstones into the mudstones, which become soft clay, allowing the slope to settle downhill. Geologists have found evidence showing that this slip has been moving for over 3000 years!" There was little to no damage was done in this scenario, and therefore the UK/England has a great geographical advantage for less risk of a mass movement occurring. In general, if there were a mass movement projected by geologists to occur ina setting with a high risk, "mass movements can sometimes be avoided by employing engineering techniques to make the slope more stable; steep slopes can be covered or sprayed with concrete covered or with a wire mesh to prevent rock falls. Retaining walls could be built to stabilize a slope." The precautions are taken place to prevent bulks of debris, rocks, and soil from sloping into the earth's ground surface. 

Sources: https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/ks3/gsl/education/resources/rockcycle/page3715.html

https://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens1110/massmovements.htm#:~:text=Mass%20movements%20can%20sometimes%20be,built%20to%20stabilize%20a%20slope.

https://opentextbc.ca/geology/chapter/15-3-preventing-delaying-monitoring-and-mitigating-mass-wasting/