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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

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

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

SMRs form from the same compressional forces that create lobate scarps.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

The study also shows that SMRs form along the same types of faults as lobate scarps.

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

To the east and west were more mountains, great jagged peaks thrusting sharply upward, their scarps piled high with snow and raked by the wind into bladelike edges as sharp as scimitars.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

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

Geology.—On entering the county at the south, a scarped barrier of hills is seen beyond the Lagan valley, marking the edge of the basaltic plateaus, and running almost continuously round the coast to Red Bay.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

Further strength was given to the position by a stream which cut in between the two heights with deep scarped banks.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet

It was not large, but the knoll on which it stood was scarped on that side, and the walls of weathered brick rose straight from the rock, fortress-like and imposing, displaying all their mass.

From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman

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

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

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

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

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