26. An embankment not being tipped to its full width as it progresses, whether in one or more wagon roads.
27. First tipping the central portion of an embankment, and completing the width and slope by side deposition after some time has elapsed.
28. Tipping the contents of earth wagons from a considerable height, thereby loosening and separating the soil, causing the larger and heavier material to be near the foot of a slope and in lumps, and an embankment to have interstices and be temporarily or permanently unstable.
29. Irregular consolidation, artificial or otherwise.
30. Unequal exposure, particularly in embankments upon sidelong ground.
31. Insufficient width of the formation, especially in high and exposed embankments.
32. The junction of two embankments tipped from cuttings in different kinds of earth.
33. No time being allowed for subsidence or consolidation before the deposited earth is subject to varying loads and vibration.
34. By allowing water to collect upon the formation and to form channels down the slopes.
35. The neglect to fill, or otherwise remedy, cracks or fissures.