Leslie Ann E. Tam
August 20, 2013
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry II
Geology 11
Mass Wasting Found in Fish Bukid
Since mass wasting is the subject that we're looking for, I
decided to go to Fish Bukid because I thought it might be an ideal
location for mass wasting. Fish Bukid is just a term used by fellow
UPV students this refers to the hill beside the College of
Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. It is one of the most elevated part
of the University of the Philippines Visayas Campus. This hill
overlooks the OWL on one side and some family restaurants in the
other. This is the perfect place to go when watching meteor
showers. The above photo is taken from the farthest part of Fish
Bukid, where the slope of the hill is steepest.
As you can see from the photo, gravity played a major role for
mass wasting to occur and the steepness also gave it a little
boost. I even had a hard time in taking the photo and keeping
myself from sliding down the hill. Vegetation, like grass, bushes
and trees, were also present on the area of where mass wasting
occurred. The materials present on the mass wasting found in Fish
Bukid is soil. However, it may become mud during a heavy rainfall.
The type of motion the mass wasting have, based on the photo, is
slide, since the original form of the land mass is still intact and
we can easily identify which part of the mass wasting was supposed
to be attached on the side of the hill. The rate of movement for
the subject mass wasting must have been a slump since a part of the
hill went downward as a large single unit of land mass. The slump
might have been caused by the constant weathering of base materials
which weakened one side of the hill. It might have took several
years for the mass wasting to be as clear as it looks in personal.
It even surprised me of how large it was when I saw the mass
wasting.