Sentences with phrase «rockfalls in»

The study ran over two winters, when rockfalls in Yosemite are the most frequent.

Not exact matches

A rare rockfall immediately south of a scenic overlook in Palisades Interstate Park changed the face of the formation dramatically and closed a popular hiking trail indefinitely.

But pockets of pikas are bucking that trend by living stably in shady talus slopes, the accumulated rockfall debris at the base of mountains.

Two smaller rockfalls completely sealed that entrance sometime between 21,500 and 23,500 years ago — one big reason the cave's art survived unsullied until the trove was discovered by three spelunkers in 1994.

Writing in Engineering Geology, the researchers report that the sensors were able to pinpoint small rockfalls (of less than 20 cubic meters) at distances of up to several hundred meters away — and identify not only individual impacts within falls, but also, in some cases, the signals generated as the rocks began to move.

In total, the team detected 12 rockfalls, with six being related and forming part of a larger, ongoing instability in the cliff facIn total, the team detected 12 rockfalls, with six being related and forming part of a larger, ongoing instability in the cliff facin the cliff face.

Avalanches, rockfalls or earthquakes can breach these dams, or cause water to overflow them, resulting in catastrophic floods known as glacial lake outburst floods.

Mars scientists also revealed MGS images of a recent rockfall, in which many boulders broke free and rolled down a crater wall sometime between November 2003 and December 2004.

In heaves and hollows and scallops, crag above crag, upland beyond upland: in murky shouldering ridges, clotted with trees, tumbling with rockfalls, the flanks of Troll Fell rose before hiIn heaves and hollows and scallops, crag above crag, upland beyond upland: in murky shouldering ridges, clotted with trees, tumbling with rockfalls, the flanks of Troll Fell rose before hiin murky shouldering ridges, clotted with trees, tumbling with rockfalls, the flanks of Troll Fell rose before him.

Gusts of wind can come out of the blue in Iceland, there are often rockfalls and small earthquakes... I wouldn't recommend sitting on a ledge with meters of nothing underneath you.....

One rockfall model that I saw factored in neither the shape of the block nor the possibility of the block breaking for determining its path down a slope.

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Geophysical disasters include volcanoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, rockfalls, landslides, and avalanches, those in which there may be no clear - cut causal relationship between the disaster and the weather.

That, as a result, is causing more rockfalls which is a danger to the climbers,» he recently told AFP News in an interview.