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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

We should not expect that the thrust fault below each scarp has moved only once.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2023

After 14 hours, the waves had carved a small cliff face called a scarp.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 15, 2023

And Lee sat and watched helplessly as the zeppelin flew on directly into a scarp of the mountains that rose up before them.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

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

To learn when those earthquakes occurred, scientists dig trenches across the scarps and study the displaced layers of soil and sediment.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

Earlier work by Watters linked the tectonic forces that produce lobate scarps with recorded moonquakes.

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

On each side rose the rocks, scarped down towards the bed of the stream, from which coal was cropping out.

From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley

But above the brows of those scarped cliffs, all is in an instant changed.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin

The hill on which the fort stands is ship-shaped and some miles long, and, from a distance, every inch appears to be scarped and guarded.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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