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Bookmark or Share- Slow-to-fast transition of giant creeping rockslides modulated by ...Giant rockslides are widespread and sensitive to hydrological forcing, especially in climate change scenarios. They creep slowly for centuries and then can fail catastrophically posing major...
- Rockslide on Yosemite’s El Capitan Kills One, Injures AnotherRockslides, a type of landslide, are defined as a rocky avalanche falling from a cliff or mountainside. Many disturbances, from earthquakes to erosion, can trigger them. A detailed study of...
- A massive rockfall crashed down on Lake Powell. Record-low water ... - CNNCNN — Memorial Day boaters captured the scene on video as a massive rockfall crashed into the waters of Lake Powell. The dramatic rockslide happened on the Utah side of the lake – the second...
- Landslide | Definition, Types, Causes, & Facts | Britannicalandslide, the movement downslope of a mass of rock, debris, earth, or soil (soil being a mixture of earth and debris). Landslides occur when gravitational and other types of shear stresses within a slope exceed the shear strength (resistance to shearing) of the materials that form the slope.
- Rockslide | geology | BritannicaRockslides and other types of slides involve the displacement of material along one or more discrete shearing surfaces. The sliding can extend downward and outward along a broadly planar surface (a translational slide), or it can be rotational along a concave-upward set of shear surfaces…. Read More.
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