Sentence example with the word 'landslides'

landslides

Last update: October 30, 2015


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Another consequence of revived erosion is seen in the occurrence of great landslides, where the removal of weak (Permian) clays has sapped the face of the Vermilion Cliffs (Triassic sandstone), so that huge slices of the cliff face have slid down and forward a mile or two, all shattered into a confused tumult of forms for a score or more of miles along the cliff base.   [Please select]

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They thought it was time to protect the forests that we might not have floods, landslides, and forest fires.   [Please select]

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It is widened everywhere, and in many places ripped up by landslides.   [Please select]

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At other times, owing to the bursting out of thaw water which has been dammed up at the top of the cliff, large landslides are caused which bury many hundreds of nests beneath them.   [Please select]

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In fact, these screes on which the nests are built have been formed by these landslides taking place from year to year, and no doubt form the graves of thousands upon thousands of former generations.   [Please select]

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