rock slide
Cliff face collapse
A rock slide is a sudden collapse of rocks down a slope, typically from a cliff face or mountainside.
Unlike gradual erosion, rock slides happen quickly and can be catastrophic, blocking roads or burying structures: The highway was closed after a rock slide.
Also written as one word: rockslide.
- natural disasterCatastrophic environmental event
- debrisScattered broken fragments
- bouldersLarge rounded stones
- mountainTall natural landmass
- mountain passRoute through highlands
cliff · steep slope · erosion · rubble · falling · tumbling · crash · rumble · loose gravel · gravel · slope · danger · danger zone · collapse · terrain · earthquake · unstable · scree
- Earth soundsrumble, tremor, quake, eruption, landslide
- geohazardslandslides, mudslide, mudflow, subsidence, earthflow
- Mountain Perilsavalanche, rockfall, crevasse, hypothermia, frostbite
- rolling thingswheel spin, ball roll, log roll, dice roll, barrel roll
- slidestoboggan run, chute, transparencies, carousel, glide
- alpine zonealpine meadow, alpine lakes, alpine plants, alpine lake, alpine zone
material cohesion
rock sliderock formation
Natural stone arrangement
cementation · consolidation · compaction · solidification · petrification