Sentences with phrase «long runouts»

In the past, teams have suggested a variety of reasons for unusually long runouts, including having the material floating on a cushion of air (à la an air hockey puck) or gliding atop a friction - reducing layer of water or ice.

«It was a bedrock landslide that had a characteristically fast and long runout — much longer than we would see for smaller rockfalls and rockslides,» Moore says.