Week 8 - Ghana's Mass Wasting
This week's blog is on mass wasting in Ghana. Ghana's main cause of mass wasting is landslides. This means that the area has rainfall patterns, terrain slope, geology, soil, land cover, and sometimes earthquakes that make localized landslides. Some of the damages occur to farms, timber, and a road from landslides. There is a projection made to obtain the economic significance of landslides in Ghana . Climate change is likely to alter slope and bedrock stability through changes in precipitation and/or temperature. Ghana dealt with a rockslide back in 2020 . According to earth scientists, the sloping mountain got steeper due to road construction and water into the rocks is what brought out the situation of mass wasting. Along with that mass wasting overall is still being studied more.