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sturzstrom

sturzstrom noun: a rock avalanche, a large landslide of soil and rock which travels a much greater horizontal than vertical distance.

Noun

sturzstrom (plural sturzstroms or sturzströme)

  1. A rock avalanche, a large landslide of soil and rock which travels a much greater horizontal than vertical distance.
    • [see title]1996, Sturzstroms and Detachment Faults, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
    • ... sturzstrom deposits suggest that sturzstroms are emplaced as collections of fragments through which deformation is concentrated along their base and, possibly, also along narrow bands at higher levels.2001 December 6, U. Briegel, Wen-Jiao Xiao, Paradoxes in Geology, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 249

Examples of sturzstrom in a sentence

  • Such behaviour reverses when the sturzstrom eventually slows down.2012, Bernd Imre, Micromechanical Analyses of Sturzstroms (rock Avalanches) on Earth and Mars, vdf Hochschulverlag AG, →ISBN, page 122:
  • ... sturzstrom deposit shows shear surfaces, or ramps, that step up eastward (Fig. 17).2002 January 1, Stephen G. Evans, Jerome V. DeGraff, Catastrophic Landslides: Effects, Occurrence, and Mechanisms, Geological Society of...

Forms of sturzstrom

pluralsturzstroms
pluralsturzströme

Origin of sturzstrom

German Sturzstrom

Questions about sturzstrom

What does sturzstrom mean?
Sturzstrom means a rock avalanche, a large landslide of soil and rock which travels a much greater horizontal than vertical distance.
How do you use sturzstrom in a sentence?
Such behaviour reverses when the sturzstrom eventually slows down.
What part of speech is sturzstrom?
Sturzstrom is a noun.
What is the plural of sturzstrom?
The plural of sturzstrom is sturzstroms.

Words near sturzstrom in the dictionary

  1. Sturton by Stow
  2. Sturton le Steeple
  3. sturts
  4. Sturtz
  5. Sturtzes
  6. sturzstrom
  7. sturzstroms
  8. sturzströme
  9. stus
  10. stush
  11. stushie

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