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Lobate scarps appear in the highlands, while SMRs are found only in the maria.

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026

Earlier work by Watters linked the tectonic forces that produce lobate scarps with recorded moonquakes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026

“Landslide movement continues to manifest at the ground surface in the form of scarps, fissures, grabens/sinkholes, tensional cracking, shear zones and thrust features,” the city’s latest report said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2024

This work was triggered when a PhD student at Open University in the UK, Ben Man, noticed that some scarps have small fractures piggy-backing on their stretched upper surfaces.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2023

To the east and west were more mountains, great jagged peaks thrusting sharply upward, their scarps piled high with snow and raked by the wind into bladelike edges as sharp as scimitars.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman