Definition of rockfall
:a mass of falling or fallen rocks
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When he was reported missing, a helicopter crew found his body in the rockfall.
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The Seattle Times reports the man's body was found Thursday in a rockfall area by a helicopter crew after he had been reported missing.
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A 75-year-old hiker was found dead Thursday near Mount Rainier National Park’s Eagle Peak Trail after rockfalls were reported in the area.
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Hunt counters that the Col du Clapier also has multilayered rockfalls, having buried much of the later Roman and earlier Celtic terraced roadbed under multiple layers of talus.
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In 2004 Mahaney discovered a two-tiered rockfall—caused by two separate accumulations of rubble—on the Traversette’s Italian frontier.
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There’s an undying hope that Grand County can persuade Boulder County to maintain its side of the pass and open Needle’s Eye Tunnel, which closed in 1990 after a second rockfall incident injured a man.
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Some have been obliterated or partially hidden by rockfall.
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Rockfall killed hundreds of workers each year, too.
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First Known Use of rockfall
1901
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