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Stewart hasn’t visited the site, but said a large head scarp, which marks the top of a landslide, is visible in photos of the area, “indicating substantial movement” that could have ruptured the pipeline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025

"The conclusion we came to is: don't build right on top of a scarp, or recently active fault. The farther away from a scarp, the lesser the hazard."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2025

Also, the most detailed images of the Moon's surface from orbit reveal the tracks made by boulders bouncing down scarp faces, presumably after being dislodged by moonquakes.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2023

On the bare dune, a similar scarp formed after nearly 18 hours, but it was less than half the height.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 15, 2023

The Friendship makes a gentle turn and crosses the eastern scarp of the Rift.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

They also analyze detailed lidar images that can penetrate dense forest cover and expose scarps left behind by ancient earthquakes.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

In some regions, scarps in the highlands transition into SMRs within the maria, reinforcing the idea that both structures share a common origin.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

As the interior cools, the surface contracts, creating the compressional forces that formed lobate scarps in the highlands.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

“Landslide movement continues to manifest at the ground surface in the form of scarps, fissures, grabens/sinkholes, tensional cracking, shear zones and thrust features,” the city’s latest report said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024

To the east and west were more mountains, great jagged peaks thrusting sharply upward, their scarps piled high with snow and raked by the wind into bladelike edges as sharp as scimitars.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

There, where the scarped cliffside reaches the clouds and the water plunges to the depths of the Grand Canyon, sits one of Norway’s most picturesque villages, Geiranger.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 20, 2023

It was not large, but the knoll on which it stood was scarped on that side, and the walls of weathered brick rose straight from the rock, fortress-like and imposing, displaying all their mass.

From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman

I rode straight into a scarped ditch and dismounted.

From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse

After winding up a deep ravine we came upon a great 361 table of rock scarped so as to be nearly perpendicular, at the base of which is a stone village.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

So the Englishman went into this palace built of stone, bedded on stone, springing out of scarped rock, and reached by stone ways—nothing but stone.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

Soon afterwards, however, nothing could be heard except a furious scratching, the sound of metal scarping at the plaster.

From The Fat and the Thin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

The mountain was so steep that our ponies could only ascend by scarping, zigzag fashion.

From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Already, on the heights of Montmartre, is a digging and delving; too like a scarping and trenching.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

Upon this mountain the Russians very strongly established themselves, scarping the heights and constructing formidable breastworks behind which to shelter themselves.

From Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Savile Lumley

A terrible scarping wind, whose very breath was bitterness to flesh and blood, blatant and unresting, filled the valley with a strange voice and life.

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Rosa Nouchette Carey