Sentence examples for sliding rocks from inspiring English sources

Curling originated in 16th-century Scotland, when the Scots started sliding rocks called "loafies" on frozen lakes and marshes.

It is a goat's leap from rock to sliding rock.

Rock tendons (prestressed cables or bundled rods, providing higher capacity than rock bolts) up to 250 feet long and prestressed to several hundred tons each have succeeded in stabilizing many sliding rock masses in rock chambers, dam abutments, and high rock slopes.

It may be subjected to sliding, rocking and sliding rocking motions.

The continuous evolution of sliding rock masses activated by rainfall combined with snowmelt will be discussed in this paper.

Due to the topographic constraints on the landslide movement, the sliding rock mass cannot be disintegrated completely, part of which still keeps the original geological structure.  .

Due to the topographic constraints on the landslide movement, the sliding rock mass cannot be disintegrated completely, part of which still keeps the original geological structure.

It can also predict all possible failure modes in masonry such as compressive crushing, bed-joint sliding, rocking, diagonal tension cracking and diagonal stepped cracking.

Somehow, Lokpa held firm and sustained little damage even as the surrounding valleys echoed with sliding rock and menacing aftershocks.

The dynamic behavior of these structures is complex and highly non-linear, as it involves sliding and rocking of the component blocks.

Into those fissures slide massive rocks, yielding vast valleys that alternate with skinny north-south ranges where the rock has seesawed upward.