Sentences with phrase «of slope failure»
Specialists have contended that the Perry Ridge and Denver Flats areas should not be logged due to risks of slope failure, debris torrents and contamination of drinking water.
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Repeated failure on the part of the bears to cut through trendline support adds credence to the bullish (upward sloping) 50 - day and 10 - week MAs, and could yield a rally to $ 14,690 (50 - day MA) or even $ 15,000.
Dietl's critiques of the mayor were mostly familiar: his intimacy with deep - pocketed developers, his dicey now - defunct political nonprofit, his regular midday pilgrimages from Gracie Mansion to the Park Slope YMCA and his failure to address and redress a host of municipal issues.
In these steeply sloped flumes, the first sediment motion that occurred represented a complete bed failure, in which all of the grains slid down the channel en masse.
Furthermore, in very steep streambeds with a 22 - degree or higher slope, sediment motion begins not with grains skipping and bouncing along the bottom of the streambed, but rather with a complete bed failure in which all the sediment is abruptly sent hurtling downstream as a debris flow.
Other studies of sea turtles suggest that characteristics of the sand, the slope of the beach and proximity to vegetation contribute to the success or failure of nests, but «no study has tried to determine what factors cause female leatherback sea turtles to dig a nest in a particular spot, or what factors contribute to when they come up to nest,» the researchers wrote.
A new study suggests that acid rain from pollutants from burning coal can slowly but inexorably weaken certain layers of rock underlying mountain slopes to the point of failure.
And does that meal start you down the slippery slope of noncompliance that ends in failure?
Of course, the Lena river delta, with its rapidly warming waters, is central to the ESAS methane situation, and slope failure might be a potential mechanism for sudden releases there.
I'm not sure that their assertion that slope failure is necessary to release large quantities of methane is correct.
Most dam failures are not of the dam but of the adjacent slopes or in some cases the gate valves.
The highest probability of dam failure is from the surrounding slopes which is what we see at Oroville.
As so often in Team discussions, Mann's answer was unresponsive to the issue: Severinghaus was wondering about the failure of late 20th century tree rings to track increased temperature — this has nothing to do with alignment of the mean, but with the slope of the various curves.
«Like most lawyers who fall into this trap I always did it with the idea that I would repay the funds, but of course once I started down this slippery slope there was nothing but failure waiting for me at the end.»
View Repeated failure on the part of the bears to cut through trendline support adds credence to the bullish (upward sloping) 50 - day and 10 - week MAs, and could yield a rally to $ 14,690 (50 - day MA) or even $ 15,000.