与泥石流有关的现象和名词

科学名词总是与学科发展相关的 ;新兴学科也总是存在各种名词问题。在泥石流研究中 ,每一个名词几乎都牵涉到若干不同的现象和过程 ,特别是某些通常认为属于滑坡的现象 ,在物态性质和运动特征上很难与我们所描述的“泥石流”截然分开。这一方面产生了不同程度的混乱 ,另一方面却使我们从名词的一些关联看到现象的联系 ,也就为未来提出确切的名词和定义提供了一些借鉴。

TERMINOLOGY IN DOBRIS FLOW RESEARCHES

A good(i.e.,well_established) definition is essential for the growth of a descipline, while the bad ones are usually mental blocks,as encoutered in the studies of debris flow and the related phe nomena, where lumps an agglomeration of terms and phrases. Each term, by which we think call itsown nature, actually involves,to some extent, various occurrences that have been given different names. Sepecifically, natrues of flow, slide, slope, and fall usually get entangled when we call some reccurrence debris flow or mudflow or mudslide, and so on. These confusions in terminology may be as well viewed as a source where a new systematic subject springs.