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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

The Saddle Mountain quake broke the ground with a 24-foot-tall scarp that blocked a drainage and created Price Lake, drowning trees as the water rose.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

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

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The region contains faults, volcanic structures, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones, many located at depths that make detailed sonar mapping extremely difficult.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

However, lobate scarps do not explain all of the Moon's relatively recent contraction features.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

One well known example is lobate scarps, ridges created when the crust compresses and one section is pushed up and over another along a fault.

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

A strong wall once surrounded the town; a narrow neck of land exists on the east where the rock has been scarped.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

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

Daud had not exaggerated matters; to clamber down the scarped sides was beyond the powers of man.

From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. Mockler Ferryman

The climate, however, has a compensating action, in so far as the rapid growth of vegetation soon clothes and protects the scarped slopes, thus acting as a "revetment."

From The Panama Canal and its Makers by Vaughan Cornish

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

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

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

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

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

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