Translational slide masses behave in all but which of these different fashions?
A) They may remain basically coherent as block slides.
B) The sliding mass may deform and disintegrate to form a debris slide.
C) Lateral spreading may occur where the underlying material fails and flows,thus causing the overlying coherent material to break apart and move.
D) Their movement is predominately vertically downward.
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