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rockfall
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rockfall [′räk‚fȯl]
(geology)
The fastest-moving landslide; free fall of newly detached bedrock segments from a cliff or other steep slope; usually occurs during spring thaw.
The rock material moving in or moved by a rockfall.
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The transfer behavior may have developed in the ancestral swallow nesting grounds of cliffs and canyons, which are the site of frequent rockfalls, say the investigators.
Swallows keep eggs in several baskets by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
Sigurdsson and Evans write that duringtheir January visit they observed rockfalls from the cliffs surrounding the lake, and also noted scars on the cliffs from rockfalls or earlier landslides.
Lake Nyos reported red and rumbling by Weisburd, Stefi / Science News
 
 
 
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