slope failure in a sentence

Examples

1. Turbidity currents responsible for wave generation are interpreted as originating from slope failures on the adjacent Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname continental margins.
2. Brown Bluff is subdivided into four stages : pillow volcano, tuff cone, slope failure, and hyaloclastite delta and into five structural units.
3. It is thought to result from a major rock slope failure, however evidence leads some to class it as a protalus rock glacier.
4. Stability analysis is needed for the design of engineered slopes and for estimating the risk of slope failure in natural or designed slopes.
5. The large volume and stratification of the deposit suggests that the failure was not merely the result of slope failure of the volcanic cone.
6. Mass wasting, slumping, and submarine landslides are forms of slope failures ( the effect of gravity on a hillslope ) observed in submarine canyons.
7. Deep-seated landslides usually involve deep regolith, weathered rock, and / or bedrock and include large slope failure associated with translational, rotational, or complex movement.
8. In Henderson County, the storms are blamed for more than $ 5.7 million in 130 slope failures-- 71 caused by Frances and 59 caused by Ivan.
9. The goal of a slope stability analysis is to determine the conditions under which the mass will slip relative to the base and lead to slope failure.
10. The clay component of the matrix is what causes most of the slope failures due to the absorption of large amounts of water combined with increased weight.