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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

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

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The region contains faults, volcanic structures, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones, many located at depths that make detailed sonar mapping extremely difficult.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

As the interior cools, the surface contracts, creating the compressional forces that formed lobate scarps in the highlands.

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

“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

Three thousand feet above the level of Fárri stands the market-town of Alio Amba, upon the crest of a scarped prong formed by the confluence of two mountain streams.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

Their halt, and the selection made of a site for the royal kitchen, proclaimed the encamping ground under a naturally scarped table-hill styled Gimbee Bayéllo, which imparts its name to the spot.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

The Mbau chiefs scarped away the face of the island so as to form the embankment upon which the present town is built.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

So the Englishman went into this palace built of stone, bedded on stone, springing out of scarped rock, and reached by stone ways—nothing but stone.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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