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Gros Ventre landslide scar visible on mountainside with debris field in foreground. The Gros Ventre landslide (/ ˌ ɡ r oʊ ˈ v ɑː n t / groh-VAHNT) is in the Gros Ventre Wilderness of Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, United States. The Gros Ventre landslide is seven miles (11 km) east of Jackson Hole valley and Grand Teton National ...
Search teams have recovered seven dead, including a 3-week-old infant and a pair of young siblings, buried in mud and debris that hurtled down a mountainside and through a densely populated port ...
One unlucky driver in suddenly ended up in the middle of a real-life James Bond movie when a mountainside in China's southwestern Sichuan province gave way, causing rocks and debris to spill onto ...
A 1,200-meter (3,900 ft) mountainside collapsed, dropping 120,000,000 metric tons (132,000,000 short tons) of rock and debris onto Lamplugh Glacier above the head of Johns Hopkins Inlet, leaving a 9-kilometer (5.6 mi) long debris field on the glacier. [188] [189] 15 Nov 2016 Karrat Fjord, Greenland: Karrat 2016 rock avalanche
A landslide, also called a landslip, [10] is a relatively rapid movement of a large mass of earth and rocks down a hill or a mountainside. Landslides can be further classified by the importance of water in the mass wasting process. In a narrow sense, landslides are rapid movement of large amounts of relatively dry debris down moderate to steep ...
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A three-year old child and a two-month old infant were rescued on February 9 after being buried for more than 60 hours by the debris, [21] prompting a 14-hour extension of rescue operations beyond the 48-hour limit. [22] Eleven of the injured were taken to a hospital in Tagum, [23] while three people were evacuated by helicopter. [8]
The term scree is applied both to an unstable steep mountain slope composed of rock fragments and other debris, and to the mixture of rock fragments and debris itself. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is loosely synonymous with talus , material that accumulates at the base of a projecting mass of rock, [ 2 ] [ 4 ] or talus slope , a landform composed of ...