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Definition of Landslips
1. landslip [n] - See also: landslip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Landslips
Literary usage of Landslips
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"In every case where the above conditions are present, there will be a tendency
to the formation of landslips, and sundry other circumstances will increase ..."
2. Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the by Charles Lyell (1832)
"Imbedding of organic remains in alluvium and the ruins caused by landslips—
Effects of sudden inundations—Of landslips—Terrestrial animals most abundantly ..."
3. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips, Robert Etheridge (1885)
"landslips.—Another feature of the coast which conspicuously affects the scenery
in many parts of the south of England is the occurrence of landslips. ..."
4. Geology for Students and General Readers: Physical Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1880)
"In every case where the above conditions are present, there will be a tendency
to the formation of landslips, and sundry other circumstances will increase ..."
5. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"—Society, Country-Houses, and Gardens.—landslips.—Indian Antiquities. AFTER I
had examined the bluff below Port Hudson, I went down the river in my boat to ..."
6. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1872)
"These are, however, becoming less practicable every year from landslips and the
encroach nient of glaciers. Only three of these passes are now used as ..."
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