Sentences with phrase «steep slopes at»

Controlling the throttle and brakes, Crawl Control can inch the LX down steep slopes at a snail's pace, freeing the driver to fully concentrate on the job of navigation and obstacle avoidance.

At this pit on Mars, the steep slope at the northern edge (toward the top of the image) exposes a cross-section of a thick sheet of underground water ice.

We went down a steep slope at 35 degree which has kind of loose earth, but not once did the SUV skid even though it weighs about 2735 kgs.

Not exact matches

Here one can start the day with a «coretto» for courage (a heady mixture of coffee and grappa), then try such slopes as the Forcella del Sasso Lungo — where you can see the world spread out in wide screen — or the Val de Mesdi, so steep at the top (a 4,000 - foot drop in two miles) that you jump right out of your socks to make a turn.

The path offers walkers and bikers scenic views of the Normans Kill and bright green slopes that shoot off the trail at steep angles.

A break in a steep gray slope, for instance, suggests a fault at work fracturing the landscape.

A cross-section of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced - color view from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

So at Bingham Canyon, «we can safely say the material was probably traveling at least 100 mph as it fell down the steepest part of the slope,» Moore says.

Willenbring, now an associate professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, had alleged, in a lengthy complaint filed with BU in October 2016, and reported on by Science last month, that Marchant also physically harassed her, throwing stones at her while she was urinating, blowing volcanic ash in her eyes, and pushing her down a steep, rocky slope several times.

Altogether, researchers analysed data covering a 94,000 - square - kilometre arc (an area about the size of Indiana or Hungary) that includes the edge of the continental shelf and the steep slope just seaward of it, says co-author Adam Skarke, a geologist at Mississippi State University in Starkville.

«Every path, every steep hillside and grassy slope, every familiar rutted road has its memories of moments of insight when the solution, or at least a way forward for some problem that had been holding things up, suddenly became clear,» she wrote.

[* Professor's note: A talus is a sloping pile of rock fragments at the foot of a cliff; a scree is an accumulation of pebbles or rock fragments at the base of a steep slope.]

Unlike terrestrial lakes that often have sloping shorelines, these lakes have tall, steep sides that «literally look like you took a cookie cutter and cut out holes in Titan's surface,» co-author Alexander Hayes, a planetary scientist at Cornell University, said in a press release.

As we do, the hood teeter - totters down, the red - rock trail again comes into view, and the Cherokee begins walking itself down the steep slope, at a controlled 0.6 mph.

The lower gearing increases the engine braking performance for descending steep slopes, and increases the torque at the wheels for easier climbing.

The Firebird and Camaro were completely redesigned for the 1982 model year, with the windshield slope set at 62 degrees, (about three degrees steeper than anything GM had ever tried before), and for the first time, a large, glass - dominated hatchback that required no metal structure to support it.

The sloped hood drops off at a steep angle, like in a Prius, and the inability to adjust the seat up or down makes it a little difficult to judge tight spaces.

The windshield slopes back at a steeper angle, and the roofline is more dramatic, giving Camry a fastback look from the side.

If you drive carelessly change speeds with the engine at low or midrange engine response is too poor for overtaking or climbing a steep slope, this makes get off our fuel economy.

An hour later, having had much of my life flash past me at various moments as I crawled on hands and knees up the extraordinarily steep slope while the children cantered ahead like little goats, we found our way back down and on to the correct path - and what we'd tried to climb wasn't even the steep side!

A door flew suddenly open and two portly city executive types marched smartly out backwards, skilfully negotiated a short but steep slope then performed an incredibly agile backward leap into a motor boat waiting at the water's edge.

The mean is much higher, because the slope is extremely steep at the top.

Drop into the water at most any point along the coasts of St. Kitts or Nevis and you will likely find coral growing on volcanic slopes that range from gentle slopes to steep drops.

The majority of sites along the island's western coast and around the nearby island of Klein Bonaire feature similar profiles: Beaches or rocky shorelines are fronted by a coastal ledge that slopes gradually from the waterline to a depth of around 25 feet, then turns downward at a steeper angle to reach depths of around 100 feet.

A steep slope on the north side of Gili Trawangan, from 5m down to 24m with a series of gullies at the bottom.

Sao Miguel Beginning at Ponta Delgada on the island of Sao Miguel, we walk the steep slopes of Sete Cidades crater and view the legendary Blue and Green Lakes, perhaps exploring the picturesque vi...

On these steep mountain slopes, called cuestas, you are challenged to take on sharp curves, frequent gear changing and minding the other traffic by honking at dead angles and measuring the passage for vehicles approaching head - on.

Hard corals extend down the steep slope from less than 10 meters at the top, to over 33 meters where the slope flattens out and smaller coral heads stand covered in sea fans, soft corals and sponges.

The Alpen Super Course under the Kogen gondola offers steep runs for the most experienced skier whilst for beginners, there are beautifully groomed slopes at the base of the mountain.

The sloping reef tops start at about 12m before dropping into a steep wall in excess of 40m before sloping down once again.

The reef in the shallows is not worth to dive, rubble outcrop was seriously damaged by the El - Nino in 1988, but at the steep slope and the deep jagged wall is still in excellent condition, from 15 meters to over 50 meters is charming colourful reef wall.

Descending right at the front of the wall in 5 meters water will lead toward the steep slope along the coastline, composition of the coral reef is mainly colonies of Stag Horn coral, coral heads and bommies rich with marine fishes, even pelagic like Sunfish often visits this site.

The house reef itself is a steep slope that bottoms out at around 25 metres.

At several points, the player must run down a steep slope in order to get to the top of another.

Many are hung, as they were originally, at a steep angle on the sloping upper walls of what was called the Great Room.

The jagged lines and energetic hatchings of other works produced at this time also relate to the rugged cliffs and steep slopes of the landscape in the Creuse region of central France, where Bourgeois grew up.

The change in texture combined with a small lobby and a bay of storefront windows at the corner of Third are worth studying since many buildings downtown let blank walls parallel Seattle's steep slopes.

This year, I expect that curve to keep at a steep slope for a while longer, as the ice will be very thin and in poor shape.

It could be that this is evident in the curve as well both before and after the 1991 volcano in that the curve is steeper than B before 1991 and then after the significant flat portion then crosses B at a similar slope.

It appears that at least one hospital and a school — two of the keystone structures in any community — are among the buildings that collapsed, along with dozens of shanties built on steep slopes.

Would a gunite - ing or shot - creting the steep downslope below the emergency spillway work at all when the weight of the water might just crush the concrete lining of the slope?

Tom, If you accept that the pauses, previously occurring and the one at the present, are part of long period cycles whose long term average is related to the actual long term trend of temperature (rather than the far steeper slope of rise from just 1980 to 1999), you are admitting that the rise (from whatever cause) has a slope of closer to 0.4 C per century than the super inflated values of 2C to 6C per century claimed by the models and supporters of CAGW.

For example, the Solar Roof tiles can only be installed on a surface that has at least a 3:12 or steeper slope.

1C after 170 years (or 110 if you prefer more dramatic starting points to make the graph slope more steep so wish to start at 1910), just doesn't bother me.

The steady growth of LPO has Gabe Acevedo fed up, and his guest post at Above The Law sounds a grim warning: «the practice of discovery in American law is not just on a slippery slope, it's careening down a steep mountain covered in ten feet of solid ice.

Initial assessments conducted roughly 3 months after this 10 - week attachment - based parenting program showed a normalization of diurnal cortisol slopes in CPS - referred children who were randomly assigned to the experimental group, but not in those in the control group.27 Our analyses revealed a similar pattern of results at the preschool follow - up, such that children in the ABC arm showed a more typical pattern of cortisol production, with higher morning levels and a steeper decline across the day, than children in the control condition.

For psychological resource constructs, mastery and sense of coherence were related to lower cortisol level at baseline in standardized rest and high mastery was related to steeper diurnal slope in two studies.

At times, the slope was so steep that ground was slippery under our feet.