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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

On the bare dune, a similar scarp formed after nearly 18 hours, but it was less than half the height.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 15, 2023

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

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

In some regions, scarps in the highlands transition into SMRs within the maria, reinforcing the idea that both structures share a common origin.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

These comparable ages suggest that SMRs, like lobate scarps, rank among the Moon's youngest geological features.

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

It was about twenty feet high, and there were some curious carvings on the walls, the entrance having evidently been scarped down by the hand of man.

From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Walmsley, Hugh Mulleneux

The road by which we travelled was scarped from the side of a mountain, and for some miles pursued a gradually descending course.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James

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 Frazer, James George, Sir

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

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

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 Carlyle, Thomas

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

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

The mountain was so steep that our ponies could only ascend by scarping, zigzag fashion.

From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

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 Lumley, Savile

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 Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred