Sentence examples for cliff fractures from inspiring English sources

Experts said the landslide was caused by heavy rain and coastal erosion exacerbating cliff fractures.

A landslide in Dorset which killed a woman on a beach was caused by heavy rain and coastal erosion exacerbating cliff fractures, experts have said.

We investigated the veneers of cliffs, the fracture density of the building rock, the distribution and dispersion of the fracture directions, direction distribution and dispersion of the giant grikes between the pillars, the layer thickness of the building rock, the size and dispersion of debris.

Bony Bankart lesions were thus classified according to their aspect into three types: fractures, cliff signs, and blunted angle signs (Figs.1,2,3).1,2,3

Then I fell off a cliff and had a compound fracture of my femur.

Infrared thermography (IRT) can be used in remote recognition of potential weakening features of a rock cliff like shallow holes, high fracturing, moisture or material inhomogeneities, providing useful information for the corresponding rock mass geo-engineering characterization.

Geo-referenced photographs taken from the adjacent cliff were used to map less prominent fractures not discernable in aerial photographs.

The ice fall is composed of a steep glacier which fractures as it slides over cliffs, forming massive crevasses, and sherpas have to find and maintain a new route through every year.

McCabe died of a skull fracture after falling from a cliff at his home in Mosman, New South Wales after attempting to dispose of a dead possum.

The northern slopes dip moderately, while the southern faces are typically near-vertical cliffs where the rocks fractured counter to the layered grain.

Nevertheless, over time the fissure grows to the point at which the bulging on a hot summer day can fracture a slab free of its cliff, triggering a rockfall.