Sentences with phrase «scarped cliff»

Though careless with individual lives, she seems careful with the type, but no: «From scarped cliff and quarried stone / She cries, «A thousand types are gone: / I care for nothing, all shall go.

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A 1000 - kilometre - long cliff, or scarp, though to be formed as Mercury's surface contracted, was found, cutting across the rim and floor of the Rembrandt basin.

Over time, as wind blows sand against the small cliffs, or scarps, that bound the Yellowknife outcrop, the scarps erode back, revealing new rock that previously was not exposed to cosmic rays.

Lobate scarps are cliffs caused by thrust faults that have broken the surface and reach up to a height of nearly two miles.

The scarps are cliffs that expose and provide access to the subseafloor, without the need for drilling, making it easier to tease out what is living at depth in oceanic crust.

Mercury is marked with great curved cliffs or lobate scarps that were apparently formed as Mercury cooled and shrank a few kilometers in size.

That shape suggests that the lakes were formed by what scientists call «uniform scarp retreat,» in which whole stacks of rock are eroded away to form cliffs.

A jagged scarp, or wall of cliffs, known as Piri Rupes borders the young, nearly crater - free plains of Piri Planitia.

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.