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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

Lobate scarp, with visible grabens on its crest.

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

These scarps are common in the lunar highlands and formed within the last billion years, about the most recent 20% of the Moon's history.

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

However, lobate scarps do not explain all of the Moon's relatively recent contraction 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

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 Charles James Lever

Its banks are scarped, about six feet high, and eight feet apart, making a strong natural ditch for defensive works.

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

When full, the surface of the water will be 227 feet below the original saddle, and the passenger on a vessel will gaze upon the scarped banks of a somewhat greater height than this.

From The Panama Canal and its Makers by Vaughan Cornish

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

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

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 Savile Lumley

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

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