Sentences with phrase «slope failure»
"Slope failure" refers to the occurrence of a slope or hillside collapsing or sliding down. It happens when the stability of the hill is weakened, often due to factors like heavy rainfall, erosion, or steepness of the slope. This can result in landslides or mudslides, which can be dangerous and damaging to structures and people in the area. Full definition
That light - brown layer is likely a turbidite, sediment jumbled up by a sudden lake slope failure, the study says.
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Finally, Mark Reid, also at Menlo Park, plugged Sisson's and Finn's results into a computer model that uses the three - dimensional shape of the mountain and the strength of its rocks to predict the areas and sizes of the most likely slope failures.
• The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis postulated that methane hydrates can be destabilized due to geotechnical slope failures on the various continental slopes around the Arctic Ocean; which might take decades rather than millennia to accumulate meaningful methane emissions.
Specialists have contended that the Perry Ridge and Denver Flats areas should not be logged due to risks of slope failure, debris torrents and contamination of drinking water.
Albany County Executive Dan McCoy has declared a state of emergency in the areas bordering the Normans Kill due to a slope failure in the area.
But the Cape Ann quake was likely a strong enough trigger to cause the slope failure.
«As long as the scientists in the Siberian Arctic are not able to report very strong increases in submarine landslides and slope failures, I wouldn't expect that the release into the atmosphere is so severe that it is really very serious at the moment,» Schwark added.
And then we have a slope failure, a landslide underwater,» Dr Schwark said.