scarp
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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
Lobate scarp, with visible grabens on its crest.
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
However, lobate scarps do not explain all of the Moon's relatively recent contraction features.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
SMRs form from the same compressional forces that create lobate scarps.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 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
“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
How many revetments and scarps have I raised?
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
They were built by preference on hills, the sides of which were scarped and terraced to assist the defence.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
The face is perpendicular and where the rock is naturally less precipitous it has been scarped.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
The scenery about the two Loughs Macnean is carved out in similarly scarped hills, rising to 2188 ft. in Cuilcagh on the south.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
The road by which we travelled was scarped from the side of a mountain, and for some miles pursued a gradually descending course.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
Another feature of the Ziscaberg, already hinted at, is very notable: that of the Moldau skirting its northern base, and scarping the Hill, on that side too, into a precipitous, or very steep condition.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 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
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
Already, on the heights of Montmartre, is a digging and delving; too like a scarping and trenching.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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
