Sentences with phrase «rock in a landslide»

Rock in a landslide breaks up and expands, so Moore estimated the landslide deposit had a volume of 65 million cubic meters (2.3 billion cubic feet).

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By 2010, Mensch was able to take the seat off Hope, although even then - with Labour's popularity at rock bottom under Gordon Brown - she was unable to win the type of landslide New Labour secured in 1997.

This simulation of the devastating landslide in Oso, Washington, on 22 March shows just how fast the liquefied rock, sand and clay rushed across the ground

They then explore two possible scenarios to explain what happens to landslides rocks: one in which ice is only present at the base, and another in which ice impregnates the soil.

Modern road construction often relies on modifying the landscape by blasting through rock, which can result in landslides.

These processes are typical in a steep landscape where rock avalanches and landslides supply large volumes of boulders and material.

Over the last decade, rock avalanches and landslides have become more common in high mountain ranges, apparently coinciding with the increase in exceptionally warm periods (see «Early signs»).

Aside from landslides, many lives were lost in collapsing structures in Nepal, often in homes constructed of rock, brick or concrete, and frequently built without adequate enforcement of building codes, the report suggested.

Last year's gigantic landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest nonvolcanic slide in North America's modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and surprisingly triggered 16 small earthquakes, University of Utah scientists discovered.

Over the last decade, rock avalanches and landslides have become more common in high mountain ranges, apparently coinciding with the increase in exceptionally warm periods.

Scientists thought most of Vesta outside the south polar region might be flat like the Moon, yet some of the craters outside that region formed on very steep slopes and have nearly vertical sides, with landslides often occurring in the regolith, the deep layer of crushed rock on the surface.

A series of terrible floods and subsequent landslides rocked cities around Rio de Janiero in January 2011.

There were landslides and the solution was to go following a truck in which, there were two young men taking the falling rocks out of the road.

Thus, according to present understanding, familiar events such as landslides and earthquakes release energy which has been stored as potential energy in the Earth's gravitational field, or elastic strain (mechanical potential energy) in rocks.»

With its deep roots descending into the underground rock, the tree provides protection to the people by stabilising the soil from landslides in the steep highlands.

North Little Rock renters insurance will usually pay for the damages incurred in the event of a fire, smoke from a fire, ice, storm damage, hail, wind, theft, vandalism, landslide, earthquake, tornado, or other disaster.