Crossword clues for rockslide
Wiktionary
n. (context geology English) A type of landslide characterized by falling rocks.
WordNet
n. a landslide of rocks
Wikipedia
Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro) is a fictional character, a mutant superhero and member of the X-Men in the . He is a student in the Xavier Institute and a member of the former Hellions squad therein. After M-Day, he was one of only 27 students to retain his powers. He is best friends with Julian Keller ( Hellion) and is extremely close to and protective of Cessily Kincaid ( Mercury). Despite his earlier appearances as a stereotypical bully, he has evolved into a good-natured (though extremely boastful) and fiercely protective friend to most of the school's students.
A rockslide is a type of landslide caused by rock failure in which part of the bedding plane of failure passes through intact rock and material collapses en masse and not in individual blocks. While a landslide occurs when loose dirt or sediment falls down a slope, a rockslide occurs only when solid rocks are transported down slope. The rocks tumble downhill, loosening other rocks on their way and smashing everything in their path. Fast-flowing rock slides or debris slides behave similarly to snow avalanches, and are often referred to as rock avalanches or debris avalanches.
Usage examples of "rockslide".
Even mousy Conseil did not lag behind as they trudged past trickling waterfalls and rockslides, until they reached the Anatolian Plateau, a wilderness peopled only by a few nomads.
Off to his right at the edge of the rockslide red fireweed plumes swayed on the slope.
The journeycake was broken in the rockslide, but some fragments are still edible.
The air was so clear Marita could make out the details of the rockslides on their slopes.
Old rockslides obscured the path here and there, dragging firs and cedars down towards the valley below, and in these places bushes and broadleafed trees had found a foothold, making passage difficult.
Countless rockslides had buried it every ten paces or so, forcing him to scramble across uncertain, shifting gravel, raising clouds of dust in his wake.
Further down I saw where rockslides had flaked away, taking the roadway with it.
He untied the bear cloak and let it fall to the ground, then unslung his sword and turned to face the rockslide.
It gathered volume and speed, crashing over the scree, dislodging more and more slabs, creating fresh rockslides.
Joe Flent was killed in a moment of panic terror too—not his, but Clement's, who saw the rockslide coming.
Nirgal joined the others and dropped over the rim and then they were all in a mad descent, clacking and jumping, and though Nirgal’s legs were rubbery his endless days of lung-gom now served him well, for he dropped past most of the others as he hopped down boulders and glissaded down little rockslides, jumping, holding balance, using his hands, making great desperate leaps, like everyone else utterly locked into the moment, into the striving for a quick descent without a bad fall.
Nirgal joined the others and dropped over the rim and then they were all in a mad descent, clacking and jumping, and though Nirgal's legs were rubbery his endless days of lung-gom now served him well, for he dropped past most of the others as he hopped down boulders and glissaded down little rockslides, jumping, holding balance, using his hands, making great desperate leaps, like everyone else utterly locked into the moment, into the striving for a quick descent without a bad fall.
The Colonel could see a few of his troops bounding like klipspringers across a stretch of slope scoured by a rockslide.
I’d found a big water pocket, one of those places where a rockslide shuts off a small valley in the tailings and, over the years, becomes a dead lake.
He managed to locate the pack he had left behind when he had set out to investigate the rockslide and unstrapped the blanket to put around her before fumbling for his numbweed jar.