Sentences with phrase «with steep slopes»

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.

The loss of the wheel means engineers must take extra care to avoid terrain with steep slopes and loose soil, which can cause the rover to slip.

It's pretty obvious steer clear of places where avalanches happen, namely snow - capped mountains with steep slopes.

So the impact of a toxin on health will not rise linearly, but non-linearly with a steeper slope as one moves to the right.

«The surrounding area is undulating with some steeper slopes around incised valleys.

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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.

From the steep slopes of Carmel above Haifa the gaze follows down across the city with its white walls and red roofs and dark upreaching pinnacles of the cypresses, looking like so many church spires.

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 forested slopes and steep cool canyons provide campers with a picturesque and challenging terrain to train on.

Tweens and parents with school - age kids dominate this side, so head to the less - steep south slope if you're with tots and preschoolers.

Although the station is not exactly easy to access — the path to the station runs up steep slopes with no shade and plenty of boulders to stumble over — it cuts down the commute for safe water by 30 minutes for local families.

You will also have no problem climbing steep slopes as you can adjust the speed with 24 gears.

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.

The areas with the least roads correspond to inaccessible landscapes or places where there is little economic motive to build them: for example, the sand hills of Nevada, the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico and California, the swamps of southern Florida and the steep slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

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.

Logic would suggest that steeper streambeds should allow for easy sediment transport since, as the angle of the slope increases, gravity should assist with moving water and sediment downstream.

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.

That may not seem surprising, but the team did note one shocker: Craters left by high - speed drops started out with relatively steep sides but within seconds they avalanched to form slopes with a more stable configuration — a previously unstudied process that widened the crater and made it shallower (image above, where depth is exaggerated by a factor of three).

Wilderness areas, steep slopes and other forest areas that don't have the roads for large vehicles are more likely to be treated with controlled burns, rather than mechanical thinning.

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.

The mountains also provide a smorgasbord of habitats, from isolated valleys to steep slopes with rapidly changing climates.

Researchers had long thought that proto - North American and Gondwana collided on a shear zone with a much steeper slope, leading some to the view that the two plates slid laterally past each other.

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.

However, all that must not be tried before warming up with hiking (going up steep slopes and burning 390 calories an hour, on an average), biking and a bit of running.

They sympathized with him as he suffered through gastrointestinal agony, climbed steep ice slopes, and maneuvered around falling rock.

Husqvarna have dealt with that: their machines can tackle steep slopes of up to 24º (45 %), with some models covering areas of up to 5000m2and an area capacity of up to 208 m2 an hour.

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.

Ofqual's role is to make the slope out of the swamp even steeper, so that schools are now starting the slope climbing with younger and younger students.

The steep slopes fill the windshield with blue sky and picking a decent line among the dips and humps is more than dumb luck.

Our trek included fording a deep trough with water lapping the vehicle's flanks, steep, off - camber slopes of sheer granite, and deep, rutted trails.

This standing could be reversed off - road though, where the Outlander's high ground clearance and four - wheel drive means it can cope with deeper ruts and steeper slopes than most of its rivals.

It'll climb 100 percent grades (that's a 45 - degree slope to you math whizzes out there) with an increased ground clearance of 9.5 inches, a deeper fording depth of 27.6 inches, a carryover approach angle of 30 degrees, and 1 - degree - steeper departure and breakover angles of 26 and 31 degrees, respectively.

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 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.

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.

On a private off - road facility within the Santa Monica Mountains, we put the trail - rated Renegade to the test, and it clawed its way up hills, over rocks and down steep slopes with surprising tenacity.

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.

Fortunately, the Intensity Scale on Surface Pro 4 is a close match to the sRGB / Rec.709 Standard — very smooth and (logarithmically) straight, but slightly less steep, with a slope Gamma of 2.13 compared to the Standard 2.20.

Around an hour into her run, she made her way up a rather steep slope, with rock ledges and drop - offs.

Keep following the path past the properties and then down a steep slope until you reach the beach — it's big and beautiful, lined with lava rocks and patches of palm trees that provide shade.

The steep reef slope is filled with beautiful soft corals, sea fans and sponges.

The south coast offers steep offshore slopes and walls in open water, while the east coast pampers with short boat rides to coral formations in shallow to medium depths.

Island beaches and coastlines may face extensive shallows filled with coral heads, or transition into spur - and - groove coral reefs that slope downward to depths of 40 to 60 feet before turning into steep walls that can drop thousands of feet.

With luck on the high steep slopes of Chocuequirao, they can soar past very close to you.

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

Before venturing on steeper slopes, upload Catamount Chairlift with the kids to enjoy a safe mid-mountain environment.

A steep slope with large boulders covered in sponges and gorgonians.

Inland, the sun is shining on steep mountain slopes sliced by deep ravines and topped with a crown of clouds.

By morning, British Columbia greets us with more snowy tops, steep slopes, tunnels and the mighty Fraser river winding around blueberry farms and orchards.