Such benches are common on slopes formed on the upper part of the Kope Formation throughout the Cincinnati metropolitan area. We initially believed that these features were toes or lobes of thin landslides (Fleming and others, 1981, fig. 6). ater trenching of several of these benches revealed that they overlie a limestone layer in the bedrock. The benches invariably contain a small-displacement listric fault in the colluvium that connects with the failure surface at the base of the landslide. Thus, the more or less continuous benches are not lobes or toes of movement. The listric fault is evidence of stretching and arching of the colluvium over a buried limestone layer.