Sentences with phrase «steep slopes in»

In - the - know locals have long professed that Llandudno is their favorite beach, and it's easy to see why: this tiny slip of sugary - soft sand sheltered by steep slopes in a quiet residential neighborhood feels like a hidden gem.

The ski area in the four valleys has lifts and the steep slopes in the valleys have been attracting tourists.

When driving down a steep slope in Titan's available 4 - Wheel Drive, this system applies the brakes to help maintain vehicle speed so you can concentrate on steering.

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

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There was too much snow to find places to put in the narrow, steep - sloped valley, he explained, and no easy way to take it anywhere else.

If this happens, to the extent that more countries with a wider range of political goals and institutions join the system created by the Bretton Woods conference, and to the extent that geopolitical tensions rise in Eurasia, it seems to me that the flat or mildly upward sloping line that represents the benefits to the US of the global trading system and the steep upward sloping line that represents the costs, if they haven't already crossed, must cross soon.

Given the increasingly steep slope of the current market advance, along with the most extreme valuations in history and the most lopsided bullish sentiment in more than three decades, it's quite possible that this instance will be different.

In the shadow of its snow - covered mountains are hundreds of arid rocky hills, where horses and cows perch as skillfully as mountain goats upon the steep slopes where people too make their homes.

Dawkins claims that what actually occurs in natural evolution is incremental change, analogous to a more cautious climber's slow ascent up along, but gentle, slope around the back of that steep cliff.

The steep slope never deterred the widows who busied themselves there in a kind of competitive grave - keeping.

As he stood in the start house, facing a steep slope and 69 gates, Miller needed to be fast again and he needed to be fast again in slalom, the most artistic and technically demanding of the Alpine disciplines.

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 game is a lot of fun, and is adaptable in difficulty to challenge a wide range of kids because the slope of the fruit stand is adjustable — you can make it less steep for youngsters, and quite steep for older kids.

Others are local oddities, like Alabama's Red Hills salamander, which has been seen emerging from its burrows on steep forest slopes so rarely that it was only discovered in 1960.

The Cassini observations reveal that the channels — in particular, a network of them named Vid Flumina — are narrow canyons, generally less than half a mile (a bit less than a kilometer) wide, with slopes steeper than 40 degrees.

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.

Instead, it collected on steep, rocky slopes, such as the edges of Monterey Canyon, as well as in a few spots in the canyon axis.

A 20 - mile (32 - kilometer) crater west of Dantu is covered in steep slopes, called scarps, and ridges.

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

These eight scarps, with slopes as steep as 55 degrees, reveal new information about the internal layered structure of previously detected underground ice sheets in Mars» middle latitudes.

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.

This could trigger landslides on steep submarine slopes in the area, unleashing tsunamis capable of hitting the UK, and releasing buried methane that could amplify global warming.

It appeared that the lake, which is about 50 meters (165 feet) deep in the middle and has steep slopes, is shaped like a funnel or an inverted cone, a structure that is difficult to explain.

To work in a mountain rainforest means climbing up steep slopes and it means frequent rains — sometimes for hours, sometimes for days.

In the end, the pattern of electrovibration that felt to users most like the picture matched the frictional forces to the slope of the bump: the steeper the curve, the more voltage required to increase the friction.

Beginning in 2011, scientists using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)-- the best camera looking down on Mars — found hundreds of streaks, about 5 meters wide, that appear seasonally on steep slopes (pictured).

Small fossils about 220 million years old found along steep red slopes in Colorado represent a near - relative of modern animals called caecilians, says vertebrate paleontologist Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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.

When researchers scaled up and down steep mountain slopes to install video cameras in the trees in which these flowers grow, they caught the plants offering a sugar - packed reward to visiting birds: the bellows organ, a bulbous, brightly colored appendage high in sugar and citric acid, which is attached to the plant's male reproductive organ, or stamen.

In many of the areas previously studied elsewhere in the world, some of them relatively arid, erosion sweeps away soil quickly — there, as a general rule, the steeper the slopes, the less time soil sticks arounIn many of the areas previously studied elsewhere in the world, some of them relatively arid, erosion sweeps away soil quickly — there, as a general rule, the steeper the slopes, the less time soil sticks arounin the world, some of them relatively arid, erosion sweeps away soil quickly — there, as a general rule, the steeper the slopes, the less time soil sticks around.

RSL are mostly found on steep rocky slopes in dark regions of Mars, such as the southern mid-latitudes, Valles Marineris near the equator, and in Acidalia Planitia on the northern plains.

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.

After working through a Martian winter, in March 2016, Opportunity tackled its steepest slope ever — reaching a tilt of 32 degrees — while trying to reach a target on «Knudsen Ridge» inside Marathon Valley.

Scientists thought most of Vesta outside the south polar region might be flat like the Moon, yet some of the craters outside that region formed on very steep slopes and have nearly vertical sides, with landslides often occurring in the regolith, the deep layer of crushed rock on the surface.

Models of mountain (alpine) glaciers are applied to solve similar problems to those models used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glaciers.

Each country, although different in culture and history, shares snow leopard habitat characteristics such as mountains with steep slopes dotted by rocky bluffs, ridges broken by outcrops, and valleys interrupted by cliffs.

«These steep banks or slopes, which are known as scarps, currently only change very slowly from year to year, retreating by a few millimeters and getting a bit dustier in the summer.»

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.

The altimetry data for the area in and around Kraken Mare also showed relatively steep slopes leading down to the sea, which also suggests the Kraken Mare might indeed be quite deep.

The script is bad, the plot is ridiculous, the drama is flat and even the big - budget action sequences that take us snowboarding on vertiginous slopes, rock climbing up steep granite faces and big wave riding in the middle of the ocean fail to quicken the heart beat.

Ripley's Game is doomed to the «direct - to - video» label and an ignominious eternity buried in the Blockbuster shelves for the occasional stunned bemusement of the well traveled and the John Malkovich fetishist — it languishes there while over-masticated tripe like The Alamo finds its way to thousands of screens, its lingering impact to remind again that the slippery slope in Hollywood's distribution game just got steeper.

Eva Klingenschmid teaches with the kind of high dedication that seems perfectly appropriate for the school where she works, in the tiny village of Spiss, high on the steep slopes that flank the snow - capped peaks of the Austrian Alps.

In general, principals have largely found the slope too steep for race and other discrimination (e.g., disability and age) claims in relation to performance evaluationIn general, principals have largely found the slope too steep for race and other discrimination (e.g., disability and age) claims in relation to performance evaluationin relation to performance evaluations.

[5] Thus, the slope of the curve described by the point estimates in the distribution in Figure 3 is steeper than the corresponding slope in Figure 1.

When I wanted to crawl up a steep grassy slope after loading all that scrap metal, I was able to barely toe the throttle and walk the truck up the hill in 4 × 4 low without doing appreciable damage to the grass.

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 P400e is the brand's first - ever plug - in hybrid (PHEV) and combines 295 bhp which it churns out from the 2.0 - litre engine along with a 85kW electric motor to produce a total of 394 bhp and 640 Nm of torque and it'll require all of that torque while climbing up the steep slope.

The short overhangs in the front and rear give it generous approach and departure angles — that means it can tackle steep slopes without scraping — and it can even ford streams up to 23.6 inches deep.

Thanks to its «outstanding performance in difficult driving conditions such as on rough - terrain and steep slopes,» the Mega Cruiser was also used by the Japanese Automobile Federation as a disaster relief vehicle.

With a ground clearance of 204 millimetres, a fording depth of 500 millimetres, breakover angle of 19.4 ° and angles of approach and departure of 25.7 ° and 22.6 ° respectively, the Sports Activity Coupé takes everything in its stride, from crests and bumps in the road to gravel tracks, deep snow and steep slopes when leaving the asphalt behind.