| Due to ploughing, gilgai microrelief is absent, but slickenside was apparent in all of the soils studied. |
| Soils of the Vertisolic order are defined based on the occurrence of BOTH a slickenside horizon and a vertic horizon within the control section. |
| Vertisolic soils are distinguished from soils of other orders by having both a vertic and slickenside horizon. |
| Specifically they have a slickenside horizon, the upper boundary of which occurs within 1 m of the mineral surface. |
| Where they are exposed, the surfaces of these faults are highly polished with slickenside lineations and the faults also have a mean dip of 45 degrees. |
| The slickenside faces on the mountain at the source of the landslide and the adjacent mountain, which also experienced the rockslide motion, indicate intense energy and high velocity of movement of the sliding mass. |
