scarps in A Sentence

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    For example, there are many Scarps on Mercury that are currently interpreted as thrust faults(where one region of a planet's surface has been pushed over another).

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    But the quakes that moved the lunar surface around to create those Scarps seem to have re-created, in miniature, a small part of that larger wall.

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    If the agency did have such images, it would be pretty easy for researchers to put the befores and afters side by side and show that this particular moonquake had formed the Scarps and moved the boulders.

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    But new research, published July 8 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, shows that the moonquake actually changed the physical structure of the moon, knocking rocks around and creating steep embankments(or Scarps) visible today in the regolith.

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    About 1.6 million years ago(judging from the number of small craters that have peppered the trails since and the rate at which those craters are believed to form), another moonquake sent rocks tumbling down the same slope and formed older Scarps.

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