Enormous landslips accompanied the earthquake, and as an indirect effect of these slides the form of the water-courses became in certain cases modified.
She establishes her galleries in firm soil, where there is no danger of landslips which would interfere with the work at nesting-time.
Enormous landslips like that of the Rossberg are here impossible, for all such weakly-constructed mountains have disappeared.
But in synclinal beds the action of these powerful agents is opposed by the structure of the rocks--and great rock-falls and landslips cannot take place.
A few result from boggy places which result from impaired drainage caused by landslips or fallen trees.
Landslips and snow-slides thrust boulders and cliff-fragments into it; running water is constantly depositing sand and sediment upon its bottom.
The cliff, sunken in places, exhibits the effect of landslips in rough slopes and ugly heaps.
We commenced the descent towards the river; the valley was a succession of gullies and ravines, of landslips and watercourses; the entire hollow, of miles in width, had evidently been the work of the river.
Landslips occur daily during the rainy season; streams of rich mud pour down the valley's slopes, and as the river flows beneath in a swollen torrent, the friable banks topple down into the stream and dissolve.
But the greater part of the Undercliff was formed by landslips in very ancient times, before recorded history in this Island began.
We have records of great landslips at the two ends of the Undercliff, near Bonchurch and at Rocken End, about a century ago.
In the sandstone districts of the area here considered, the landslips had some important secondary effects.
Again, along the southern edge of the Garo and Khasi hills, landslips were unusually prevalent.
The distribution of landslips shows that their formation depends almost as much on local conditions as on the violence of the shock.
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.
All over the island, however, fissures and minor landslips occurred.
If strong enough, they may precipitate landslips or fissure the alluvial soil near river-channels.
From the hillsides great landslips descended, filling the valleys with débris; and slopes which were formerly green with forest, after the earthquake looked as if they had been painted yellowish-white.
Landslips were so numerous that the greater part of the mountain slopes had descended into the valley, the whole appearance of which had changed.
August 3rd, a violent shock occurred that caused further damage at Forio, and even at places so far from the epicentre as Fiaiano, Barano, and Fontana, and increased the displacements of the landslips on Epomeo.
When the destruction was once inaugurated by the first great catastrophe there was no intermission of the minor landslipswhich continued slowly but steadily to eat away the continent.
Occasionally, however, they are to be seen exposed by landslips high up the flanks of the mountains, as on the slopes of Thambeyu 1,000 feet above the sea.
Reference has been above made to the fact that the agglomerates may be seen overlying the tuffs farther down the slope, so that the conditions favourable for landslips exist.
These landslips are not of weekly or even daily occurrence.
Dark pines crest the heights around, and landslips score their flanks with white seams below; while streaks of snow remain throughout the month at 9000 feet above; and everywhere silvery torrents leap down to the Lachen and Lachoong.
The difficulty and delays in remittance of food, caused by the landslips having destroyed the road, had reduced our provisions to a very low ebb; and it became not only impossible to proceed, but necessary to replenish my stores on the spot.
It is in the rainy season that landslips are most frequent, and shortly after rain they are pretty sure to be heard far or near.
Terrific landslips had taken place along the valley, carrying down acres of rock, soil, and pine-forests, into the stream.
Actinolites are found in some highly metamorphic gneisses, brought by landslips from the neighbouring heights.
We consequently found that the roads had suffered, the little bridges and aids to climb precipices and cross landslips had been carried away, and at one place we were all but turned back.
Extensive landslips on its steep flank expose (through the telescope) a mass of gravel and angular blocks, while streams cut deep channels in it.
At dangerous spots, where landslips may be expected, small white flags are stuck up.
Down we go on a break-neck descent among boulders, between steep cliffs, over landslips and spurs, and the Himalayas gradually vanish from sight.
On our way we passed two landslips which encroached a good deal on the river, each forming a small rapid round its base.
A good deal of danger is incurred in passing up these rivers, owing to the number of small landslips which occur annually.
It is probable that many changes have taken place on this exposed islet since the visit of the 'Prometheus'; the sands may have been washed away, and there is no doubt that rocks and rocky landslips are constantly falling from above.
Gigantic landslips are frequent, and I should not be surprised to find that all traces of our three months' hard digging have by now been entirely obliterated.
This seemed scarcely possible, but it might, I acknowledged, have been so changed by landslips as to be unrecognisable.
The mountains that lay to the back of it were barren and of bold outline, great pinnacles of rock dominating huge landslips that slope to the shingle-beach.
The problem as to whether the treasure was or was not lying under the landslips in South-west Bay was as far from solution as ever.
As one travels over the mountains one is ever starting miniature landslipsand dislodging great stones, which roll, thundering, down the cliffs, gathering other companions as they go until a very avalanche is formed.
You will easily see how in forming earth-pillars and causing landslips rain changes the face of the country, but these are only rare effects of water.
This land was once at the top of the cliff, and came down by succession of landslips such as we have been describing.
The hillside and the road were both gone, and there were heavylandslips along the whole valley.
In some places thelandslips had brought down large trees, which lay across the road.
Further, the wooded slopes adjacent to the road have not been sufficiently strengthened, and, under present conditions, serious landslips are bound to occur every year.
The ice on the river was broken up, and manylandslips caused.
In them alone will occur landslips from the boundary cliffs, and these will frequently divert the stream from its accustomed course, causing the original ravine to become both wider and more tortuous in its direction.
Landslips near Cinquefrondi, caused by the earthquake of 1783.
No waves of the sea raised by earthquakes, nor the bursting of lakes dammed up for a time by landslips or by avalanches of snow, can account for the observed facts; but I shall endeavor to show, in the next book, chap.
Landslips of great size and innumerable deep gorges and ravines furrow the bottom of the basin, until at length a principal fissure carries away the united streams to the paddy-fields below.
Wherever landslips are frequent, they may be taken as an evidence of a poor, clay subsoil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landslips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
