slow-moving
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They formed when slow-moving mixtures of ice and debris traveled across the surface, similar to the behavior of glaciers on Earth, and eventually became covered by a thicker layer of rocky material.
From Science Daily
Its present size and depth, approximately 350 km wide, line up well with predictions for these slow-moving mantle instabilities.
From Science Daily
Although its magma held a high amount of gas and was capable of a major explosion, the eruption initially produced a slow-moving lava flow inside the cone.
From Science Daily
Detecting slow-moving, low-flying craft that are often no bigger than birds and not always visible on radars is hard.
Litter was floating on top of this slow-moving sludge of sewage.
From BBC
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