Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ROCKFALL
ROCKFALL
Definitions of ROCKFALL
- A quantity of rocks that has fallen from a cliff etc.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ROCKFALL in a Sentence
- The most recent recorded rockfall events occurred in the 1990s when one large slab fell in 1991 and then two additional large rockfalls occurred in 1995.
- Though it is possible to travel through Okawachi via Hitoyoshi, the road is unclearly signed from hotspring town of Yunomae and care needs to be taken for rockfall and road closure during certain times of the year.
- On 6 June 2010, unit 156499 derailed and briefly caught fire after striking a rockfall near Falls of Cruachan station on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line; the fire was quickly put out using on-board fire extinguishers.
- Estcourt, Anthoine, and Rowland all reached the lower West Summit at , while Braithwaite was injured early on by rockfall.
- Hazards that hikers can encounter along the Bright Angel Trail include dehydration, hyperhydration, sudden rainstorms, flash flooding, loose footing, bootpacked ice, rockfall, encounters with wildlife, and extreme heat.
- Favourable geology and climate are the principal causal mechanisms of rockfall, factors that include intact condition of the rock mass, discontinuities within the rockmass, weathering susceptibility, ground and surface water, freeze-thaw, root-wedging, and external stresses.
- This could be scrambled down until recently but a rockfall now means it must be avoided, downclimbed or abseiled.
- They are known for their Art Nouveau and Art Deco apartment houses, examples of which include the Phaeton, The Rockfall, The Admaston, The Dallieu, The Gramercy House, The Adlon, and The Gramont.
- PHGG was subsequently contracted by Christchurch City Council and Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority to map and define the locations of mass movement hazards, such as rockfall and landslide, and to collate geospatial information for use in the rezoning of the city.
- Subdural hematoma, associated with rockfall, icefall, falls while climbing, glissade crashes with rocks, mountain bike crashes.
- Subdural hematoma, associated with rockfall, icefall, falls while climbing, glissade crashes with rocks, mountain bike crashes.
- In the study region, Tivat Crater, rockfall markings faded at the same time as recurrent slope lineae (RSL), suggesting a fading mechanism that acts across the whole crater.
- Similarly to rockfall, alpinists face the risk of avalanches whose effects are also amplified by the couloirs some alpine routes ascend.
- The cliffs from Cape Kidnappers to Bluff Hill, at Blackhead, Cape Turnagain as well as the inland McLaughlin cliffs and hills in the Pohangina Valley had severe rockfall occur.
- After a rockfall separates them, Mills is attacked by an Oviraptor and Koa is attacked by a dromaeosaur which she traps in a fallen tree log; she uses bombs Mills had given her to kill the dinosaur.
- He and his co-workers have done research on geomorphological mapping, glaciation, and periglaciation, as well as many related topics such as frost weathering, nivation, solifluction, hydrology, debris flow, rockfall, slope stability, and wind erosion.
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