In addition to the material which the glacier gathered up and excavated, it also carried the wreckage brought down by landslides and the eroded matter poured upon it by streams from the heights.
Landslides and silt have filled many of the old glacier lake basins, and these, overgrown with grass and sedge, are called glacier meadows.
The earth may be locally cracked and rent, small fault scarps may develop, landslides and avalanches may result from the shaking of the earth, buildings may be demolished, and sea waves may be rolled upon the land.
Some earthquakes have been caused by the impact of great landslides or avalanches, or by the sudden caving in of underground openings.
Remember, where there have been severallandslides there may be more.
Landslides have not only buried mines, they have buried cities as well.
It was in a district that had been visited by landslides before, and so he called it the Landslide Mine.
There have been a good many landslides in the canyon here the last fall, and if the nugget is under them, we may as well bid it good-by.
Go on, and let him dig away some of the landslides until he gets sick of them.
There have been landslides in all the canyons that run through there till you can't rest.
If the landslides are all like that, I am certainly not going to work to throw them all away just to make eight thousand dollars.
It was landslides everywhere, and the mark of a man's spade was on every one; so it showed that the bronco had been over that same ground before.
Snow lay for weeks, thawing, freezing, accumulating with every squall that came over from the mountains, and falling in small avalanches which started landslides all along the bluff.
Many difficulties were encountered in laying the track, some of which, especially those caused by landslides and the overflowing rivers, seemed at times insuperable.
And yet, aside from the landslides which occur in all mountainous countries, and the miasmatic climate, there were but few great difficulties encountered.
Rain fell frequently, and twice they saw where serious landslides had occurred.
There were also places where they discovered landslides had occurred, sections of the bank having slipped into the rising river.
During the 1964 Alaska quake, shock-induced landslidesdevastated the Turnagain Heights residential development and many downtown areas in Anchorage.
Landslides triggered by earthquakes often cause more destruction than the earthquakes themselves.
Cathedral Rock and two small landslidesnorth of the river, about two miles east of John Day, show this classic form.
Some landslides occur suddenly, but many move forward only as fast as the toe or lower end is eroded away, as at Sunken Mountain.
Landslides have marked the face of the John Day Country.
Strawberry Lake is dammed by landslides which probably came from the west wall of the valley after the glacier melted and left the valley wall over-steepened.
For the next two miles, to the Sunken Mountain viewpoint, the road winds through landslides in the John Day Formation and Picture Gorge Basalt.
The principal effects of landslides may be gathered from the following examples.
The work of ground water in producing landslides has already been noticed.
At other times, owing to the bursting out of thaw water which has been dammed up at the top of the cliff, large landslides are caused which bury many hundreds of nests beneath them.
In fact, these screes on which the nests are built have been formed by these landslides taking place from year to year, and no doubt form the graves of thousands upon thousands of former generations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landslides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
