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- A Sturzstrom (from the German Sturz (fall) and Strom (stream, flow)) or rock avalanche is a large landslide, consisting of soil and rock. It travels a...
- local economy. The Köfels landslide was a gigantic landslide, known as a sturzstrom, that occurred in the Ötz valley 9800±100 years ago according to radiocarbon...
- There have been known various classifications of landslides. Broad definitions include forms of m**** movement that narrower definitions exclude. For example...
- responses to precipitation. A rock avalanche, sometimes referred to as sturzstrom, is a large and fast-moving landslide of the flow type. It is rarer than...
- west are part of the Elsinore Fault Zone. The results of a prehistoric sturzstrom can be seen in Martinez Canyon. The Painted Canyons of Mecca feature smaller...
- to transfer the faces load from the slopes exterior, to its interior. Sturzstrom, a unique type of landslide consisting of soil and rock in which the horizontal...
- permafrost terrain Rockslide – Type of landslide caused by rock failure Sturzstrom – Type of landslide Tarbuck, E.J.; Lutgens, F.K. (1998), Earth, an introduction...
- Rille (German: "groove"), a type of feature of the surface of the Moon Sturzstrom Urstrom, a large glacial age river in Northern Europe Urstromtal Minerals...
- northwest slope 300 years ago. Riding on a cushion of compressed air (see sturzstrom), the rock debris traveled at about 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), flattened...
- (9.3 mi) high. Iapetus is known to support long-runout landslides or sturzstroms, possibly supported by ice sliding. The difference in colouring between...