Sentences with phrase «scarp along»
Geologists examine a section of the Orangeburg Scarp along the James River in Virginia.
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The authors use LiDAR and field data to identify linear scarps, sags, and swales that cut across both bedrock and Quaternary deposits along the Leech River fault.
Such a scarp runs vertically along the right edge of the image (bottom), which encompasses a horizontal extent of about 200 kilometers.
But one of these old beaches, the Pliocene - era Orangeburg Scarp, warps and bends along its course from Florida to North Carolina.
The large scarps were formed as Mercury's interior cooled, causing the planet to contract and the crust to break and thrust upward along faults making cliffs up to hundreds of miles long and some more than a mile (over one - and - a-half kilometers) high.