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landslip

[ UK /lˈændslɪp/ ]
NOUN
  1. a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

How To Use landslip In A Sentence

  • To prevent landslips, the tunnel roofs have been rock-bolted and short-creted, and 7,000 steel liners used for pressure shaft and penstocks alone.
  • A soil expert claims that human activity such as road-building, construction vibration and loading on top slopes can all trigger landslips.
  • An empty car was washed into the harbour in Portloe, south Cornwall, while a landslip at Lostwithiel, near Bodmin, blocked the main rail line in and out of the county. Residents rescued from homes as floods hit Cornwall
  • The materials of the Epomean landslips had evidently been separated for some time by shallow fissures from the adjoining rock, for the surfaces of the fissures were discoloured by fumarolic action. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
  • Periglacial activities included considerable slope instability in extraglacial areas, giving rise to gelifluctate, landslip and talus deposits. Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia
  • The reserve at Balnaguard Glen was created in 1976 and is a highly dissected gorge dominated by birch and juniper woodland and marked by spectacular landslips on its northern side.
  • I heard no other sound; but when the lull came, there was the wash of a heavy river, or a crack as of artillery that told of landslips, or the plaintive cry of the peesweep as it rose in the air, trying to entice the waters away from its nest. The Little Minister
  • In those days, after heavy rain, there were landslips.
  • Landslip and Flood Warnings were also issued on two and eight occasions respectively.
  • Find information on housing, flood risk, radon, mining, landslips, air quality, age distribution, crime, ethnicity, religion, health and amenities.
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