They traveled by rail, further by horse-drawn wagons over a steep, rugged mill road that ended at Sempervirens Creek. |
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We walked down a steep hill, ahead of us the moon shone down on the waterfront. |
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The ground leading to it was steep windslab, too deep to find hard snow for a deadman, or ice for a screw. |
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Kennedy entered the waist from below decks reaching his hand down the companion to assist her up the steep stairs! |
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The combination of a steep drop in interest rates and the rapid rise in household debt has fuelled a surge in lending. |
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I was riding my scooter down a steep hill, with a pillion passenger on the back, when the brake cable went. |
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Second, it has some sort of ablative shielding and is making a very steep controlled entry. |
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Its zig-zag course and the steep cliffs on either side make a two-hour raft trip down the river an adventurous experience. |
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Getting up Mt. Gudmundson didn't look so easy as there was a very steep ice and snow bank forming a razorback up to the rocky outcrops. |
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The stairs were steep and creaking and he held on to the rail bolted to the wall. |
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The steep hills and valleys also offer superb rivers for white-water rafting. |
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To go over the Andes by rail entailed very steep gradients indeed, and when I come to write about rack railways I will come back to them. |
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If I want to travel just a few hundred yards I have to negotiate sloping pavements and steep curbs in my chair. |
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His raw skills and competitiveness make him a terrific prospect, but the learning curve will continue to be steep. |
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From nearby, use a wide-angle lens to exaggerate the height of sheer rock walls or steep cliffs. |
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The steep slope becomes a collection of terraces connected by a winding stepped path, with buildings tucked under or placed on the terraces. |
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Rowlands freely admits he feels inexperienced on tarmac rallies and that he is still on a steep learning curve. |
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It glimmers with the image of the adjacent water nymph in steep foreshortening. |
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After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction. |
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This week, another runaway dump truck from a local construction site barrelled out of control down one of West Vancouver's steep streets. |
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Washington in this area is quite hilly and Rock Creek Park has some very steep ravines. |
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After a night's rest we carried our kayaks down a steep path that led us to the water's edge. |
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After two hours I'd seen nothing but steep greenery and heard nothing but the occasional whoop. |
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The often steep and rugged lower slopes of the mountains are dominated by cacti, agaves, yuccas, and thorn-bearing shrubs. |
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He said the fares were being kept down to reasonable levels despite the steep increase in petrol prices. |
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This tract is beautifully undulating in its surface, containing a number of bold eminences, steep acclivities, and deep shadowy valleys. |
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More-over it is divided by long traces of waterfall and steep ravines and there are slithery slopes of shale. |
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It whizzes up steep hills with brio and remains stable as it passes coaches and juggernauts. |
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One forestry official pointed out that mountain forests were essential to prevent soil washing down the steep slopes in heavy rains. |
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As they crested the hill, Paragon saw that this side of the ravine was not so steep. |
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These provinces have the best rainfall, but steep gradients and poor farming ensure that, when rains do fall, rivers run brown. |
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Owing to the steep slope of Quebec roofs, the men must lash themselves to the chimney pots to move about. |
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The EZ-Rocket performed another series of tight turns, steep climbs, and a wingover maneuver. |
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Wild parsley grows so abundantly at the top of our steep section that I've never needed to plant any in the garden. |
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Broad expanses of open sand undulate, sweeping up into steep mountains or falling off into lakes, ponds, and shallow quagmires of quicksand. |
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We strolled up a steep street, where wild ducks quacked for food outside a shop, and into a quiet garden. |
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We drive to Bergama, 45 minutes away, past women working side by side in the fields, and wind up steep streets to the acropolis high above the noisy town. |
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The Nationals had the advantage of position, their lines projecting in wedge-form towards the Confederate centre, with steep rocky acclivities along their front. |
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The Pike River coal mine is about 50 miles northeast of Greymouth and is in a steep mountainous area. |
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The city tumbles down the steep slopes to the river's edge where it coalesces into a raffish assortment of bars, cafes and restaurants housed in tottering waterfront terraces. |
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Partly gravel, the road is so steep at times that the wheels of our chevy 4x4 spin out beneath us. |
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Most commoners tried to get as close to the protective ramparts as possible, building houses that clung to the steep sides of the Yantra gorges like molluscs on a rock. |
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After a four-hour ramble on foot through deep gorges, past monasteries, and up steep, forested hillsides, we arrive in Chhulemu, Babu's home village. |
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The fall to the water's edge is now a steep series of frosted steps. |
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She struggled to control the cart as it rolled before her down the steep, bumpy road. |
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So I persisted, wheezing and tripping up and down the steep hills. |
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Where the cliffs aren't steep enough, they may become overgrown with grass. |
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In other Swedish provinces, steep coastlines usually reveal primary rock instead. |
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They are all relatively short, but have a high discharge rate owing to their steep mountainous nature. |
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Historically, fishermen have known about the Devil's Hole for generations because they have lost trawl nets on the trenches' steep sides. |
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Internal waves occur in the ocean at the base of the pycnocline, especially at the bottom edge of a steep thermocline. |
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Overfishing of small fish such as sand eels can lead to steep declines in the colonies relying on these prey items. |
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In such cases, the body of a snake or several snakes is left to steep in a jar or container of liquor. |
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Landing on the island is very difficult, as it normally experiences high seas and features a steep coast. |
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Such slabs may have steep dips at relatively shallow depths and so may be associated with unusually deep trenches, such as the Challenger Deep. |
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Submarine canyons are more common on the steep slopes found on active margins compared to those on the gentler slopes found on passive margins. |
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Additionally, Pacific coastal conditions tend to be unstable due to steep unstable terrain, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. |
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The slopes around them however, such as the border of the Tongue of the Ocean in the Great Bahama Bank, are very steep. |
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Flat and pedally, then steep and fast, then catch-a-pedal-rocky, it's great fun, if a little short. |
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The city of Exeter was established on the eastern bank of the River Exe on a ridge of land backed by a steep hill. |
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These are high hills with steep slopes where they border the clays to the south. |
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It is reached via a steep footpath leading from the clifftop to Branscombe Beach. |
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The erosion is both downward, deepening the valley, and headward, extending the valley into the hillside, creating head cuts and steep banks. |
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Depending on glacier regime, even steep alpine lands can be preserved through time with the help of ice. |
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Often a steep spur was used, where only part of the circumference had to be fortified. |
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However, their intensive cultivation, especially on steep slopes, has led to widespread soil erosion and gullying. |
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Pindus is characterized by its high, steep peaks, often dissected by numerous canyons and a variety of other karstic landscapes. |
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Along the length of the eastern coast runs a narrow and steep escarpment containing much of the island's remaining tropical lowland forest. |
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Budget cuts since 2009 have severely impacted the national police force, producing a steep increase in criminal activity in recent years. |
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Most of the victims were from the shantytowns built on steep hillsides that surround the city. |
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It is also the northernmost occurrence of subhumid tropical forest in Mexico, although little of this remains, mostly on steep slopes. |
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Those that drain toward the Pacific Ocean are steep and short, flowing only intermittently. |
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Tributaries of the Amazon River have a much larger flow, and are longer and less steep once they exit the sierra. |
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Its streets are steep and narrow with old houses built by the Spanish over important Inca foundations. |
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Galicia's many hydroelectric dams take advantage of the steep, deep, narrow rivers and their canyons. |
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Most of the islands are steep, with unstable soils and little permanent fresh water. |
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The steep gravelly slopes of the mountains and hills of the eastern slopes of the Southern Urals are mostly covered with rocky steppes. |
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By this time, after 20 years of imperial dysfunction, the Ming army was in steep decline. |
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However, during the Panic of 1893, the fall in demand led to a steep fall in prices. |
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Lamoreaux for explaining the steep price falls is to view the involved firms acting as monopolies in their respective markets. |
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In Memphis, the Tennessee Bottoms end in steep bluffs overlooking the river. |
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Three levels of booklined shelves encircle the room, protected behind railinged galleries connected by a steep staircase. |
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This region has a longer, wetter rainy season than the Pacific lowlands, making erosion a problem on its steep slopes. |
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Furthermore, some of these proposals included the imposition of a steep proportional tax upon reminting. |
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Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling-place of angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. |
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The buttkicker portion of the trail comes towards the end with a steep plunge into Wildcat Canyon Regional Park. |
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Up these steep walkways cannelured for footpurchase, the free passage of roaches. |
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The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. |
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Critics of contemporary culture generally posit a steep decline in cultural literacy. |
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The steep slate roofs were topped with bronze finials so tall and fanciful they looked like drops of liquid sliding down a thread. |
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Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. |
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During the GSS, retailers here offer steep discounts, sometimes up to 70 per cent off their original prices. |
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This area is craggy and steep, with the impressive pinnacle of Pillar Rock its showpiece. |
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The northern and western edges of the Cotswolds are marked by steep escarpments down to the Severn valley and the Warwickshire Avon. |
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They also graze in hilly or mountainous areas where the slopes are not steep. |
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This may be covered by the later village, which has long occupied the whole narrow strip between the steep hillsides and the lake. |
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What is particularly noticeable is the steep rise in hyperon populations as the limiting mass is approached. |
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To the east of Ivinghoe Beacon is Dunstable Downs, a steep section of the Chiltern scarp. |
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The most distinctive of these is chalk grassland which is largely limited to steep escarpment and valley slopes. |
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It is bounded on its northern side by a steep escarpment, from whose crest there are extensive views northwards across the Weald. |
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The programs that were offered operated voluntary and required the parents to pay a steep fee per child. |
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Windsor Castle's position on top of steep ground has meant that the castle's gardens are limited in scale. |
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A moat was a defensive ditch with steep sides, and could be either dry or filled with water. |
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On steep mountainsides breed large colonies of auks, puffins, skuas, and kittiwakes. |
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The roads are often quite steep, narrow and winding, and ruts can be a problem when it rains. |
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Hong Kong Island's steep, hilly terrain was initially served by sedan chairs. |
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Whereas earlier land had been enclosed in order to make it available for sheep farming, by 1650 the steep rise in wool prices had come to an end. |
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Ranges of steep hills channelled the advance into three attacks each by an Indian or West African division. |
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Into Devon and Cornwall, the coastline becomes more rocky and steep, with numerous cliffs and tiny fishing villages along the coastline. |
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The summit dome itself, together with the steep northern cliffs, are composed of andesite and basaltic lavas. |
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The eastern, southern and western coasts of the peninsula are lined with numerous sandy beaches both wide and small, separated by steep cliffs. |
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One of the most striking sections of the Ming Great Wall is where it climbs extremely steep slopes in Jinshanling. |
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Tijuana is noted for its rough terrain, which includes many canyons, steep hills, and mesas. |
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The period marked a steep change in the diversity and composition of Earth's biosphere. |
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The summits of the Cuillin are bare rock, jagged in outline and with steep cliffs and deep cut corries and gullies. |
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To a great extent the remnants survived on land that was either too steep, too rocky, or too remote to be agriculturally useful. |
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The preparations at South Queensferry were of a much more substantial character, and required the steep hillside to be terraced. |
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Landslipping of the steep valley slopes, and subsidence caused by the coal extraction, have also posed problems. |
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Modern humans commonly have a steep, even vertical forehead whereas their predecessors had foreheads that sloped strongly backwards. |
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The mills were supplied from an aqueduct, where it plunged down a steep hill. |
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The eastern side of the ridge is characterised by steep drops and crags including Craig Berwyn north of the summit and Craig y Llyn to the south. |
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Cut into the cliffs by hand, this narrow, winding route hugged the contours around both steep headlands. |
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The coastline remains as steep cliffs until after Dunraven Head, where the cliff face drops away to expose Southerndown Beach. |
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Parabolic dunes have loose sand and steep slopes only on their outer flanks. |
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Hags are too steep and unstable for vegetation to establish itself, so they continue to erode unless restorative action is taken. |
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In Greenland, however, uncontrolled hunting is pushing many species into steep decline. |
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Active continental margins have narrow, relatively steep shelves, due to frequent earthquakes that move sediment to the deep sea. |
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If numbers are placed close to each other, it means that the terrain is steep. |
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Volcanic islands such as those in the Canary chain often have steep ocean cliffs caused by catastrophic debris avalanches and landslides. |
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It was fortified early on with a castle on the steep hill that overlooks the city's western side. |
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Grazing and pasture land are limited because of the steep and rocky topography of the Alps. |
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The northbound side of the road here was upgraded in the 1980s to provide an extra uphill lane for overtaking due to the steep gradient. |
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In the other direction, the B5289 runs via the steep Honister Pass, to Borrowdale and Keswick. |
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A less steep pass to Eskdale over Birker Fell leaves the valley at Ulpha, with extensive views of the Scafell range. |
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Until 1964, trains were forced to follow a sharp curve along a contour in order to avoid steep gradients. |
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Creating passages for trains up steep hills and through mountain regions offers many obstacles which call for special technical solutions. |
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Travelling between valleys was difficult on foot or by pony because of the steep passes across the mountainous ridges. |
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A parallel drainage system is a pattern of rivers caused by steep slopes with some relief. |
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Because of the steep slopes, the streams are swift and straight, with very few tributaries, and all flow in the same direction. |
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As the river flows along a strike valley, smaller tributaries feed into it from the steep slopes on the sides of mountains. |
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The concave shape of a glacial cirque is open on the downhill side, while the cupped section is generally steep. |
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Situated high on a mountainside near the firn line, they are typically partially surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs. |
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Grasmoor is distinguished by its steep western flank, dropping dramatically to Crummock Water. |
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The Ennerdale flanks are steep and rough with areas of crag, the lower slopes being planted with a ribbon of conifers. |
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The stream begins at Greendale Tarn, nestled into the steep face of Middle Fell. |
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The watershed narrows to fine ridge, steep enough on the Ennerdale side and rimmed by crags throughout above the head of Buttermere. |
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From this direction it appears as a truncated cone, steep sided with a wide level top. |
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Along with Eagle Crag and Sergeant's Crag on the Borrowdale side these fells display steep flanks and plenty of rock on the summits. |
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Beneath the north face is the steep valley or clough from which Clough Head gets its name. |
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Also beneath the steep northern face lies the lower hill of Threlkeld Knotts, a granite hill which has been much quarried round its margin. |
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A steep valley to the east of Threlkeld Knotts, which begins immediately below Red Screes, is the clough from which Clough Head is named. |
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This appears to be a reference to a steep valley just below Red Screes, and which contains a sheepfold called Clough Fold. |
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When Grisedale Hause is reached it is a steep climb to the summit following a broken wall. |
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In winter it involves climbing down another snow cornice onto steep icy ground. |
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For example, given a truly vertical rock wall above a very steep slope, one could count just the rock wall or the combination. |
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From the east a very steep and winding path straight up from Kirkstone Pass is very popular with visitors. |
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From the north a more direct approach over Middle Dodd is possible, but the way is very steep and unmarked. |
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The screes which cover the steep eastern slopes above the Kirkstone Pass appear to have a reddish colouration. |
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Only above the shore of Ullswater does a trace of Lakeland remain, with the steep faces of Arthur's Pike and Bonscale Pike looming over the lake. |
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The panorama is excellent, improved immeasurably by the steep final slope and lack of foreground. |
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This ridge end position gives the fell a sense of isolation and increased stature, with steep faces on three sides. |
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A cuesta is a hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, and a steep slope on the other. |
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Where erosion has exposed the frontslope of this, a steep slope or escarpment occurs. |
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The hill is prominent from the A590 road with its steep limestone cliffs, laid down in the Carboniferous period some 350 million years ago. |
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Intermediate lavas form andesite domes and block lavas, and may occur on steep composite volcanoes, such as in the Andes. |
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Subduction typically occurs at a moderately steep angle right at the point of the convergent plate boundary. |
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However, anomalous shallower angles of subduction are known to exist as well some that are extremely steep. |
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Scout Scar and Cunswick Scar are both formed of carboniferous limestone and dip gently towards the east with a steep western scarp slope. |
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The courtship flight includes a mix of aerial acrobatics, precise spirals, and steep dives. |
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In remote, undisturbed areas such as the Arctic, steep slopes and even low rocks and mounds may be used as nest sites. |
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Using the original Miners track up the steep outer incline of Fleetwith Pike the via ferrata is both physically and mentally challenging. |
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The garden was used by Ruskin to experiment in various forms of cultivation and drainage and it contains a series of steep and winding paths. |
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Beyond the summit of Cat Bells is the steep sided depression of Hause Gate, before the ridge broadens and twists south westward to Maiden Moor. |
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Woodland on the steep slopes includes remnants of ancient woodland but other areas are more recently planted. |
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The steep slopes of its eastern and southern flanks have given rise to a series of landslips. |
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This road is very narrow and steep and unsuitable for heavy vehicles or high volumes. |
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Until the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote places were reachable only by walking over some fairly steep hills. |
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There are toilet facilities at Garsdale station, and an original public red telephone box at the bottom of a steep hill to the station. |
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He continued to work with Ericsson, and in 1830 they patented a method of ascending steep inclines on railways. |
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These are long, narrow inlets with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity. |
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Many of the world's mountaintops may be reached by walking or scrambling up their least steep side. |
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By contrast, in the oak woodland on a steep hillside at Keskadale in Cumberland the occurrence is solely rupestral. |
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Other steep scalenohedrons of the principal zone are also often present, sometimes in addition to y, sometimes taking its place. |
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The trail from Hannegan Peak down to Hannegan Pass is steep, scrabbly, and not maintained. |
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Below its nearly slateless cow-sheds and tumbling iron-gated piggeries, a steep slope drained liquids from all ordure down to the pretty river. |
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Speedboarding involves leaping onto long skateboards and zipping down steep public streets and canyon roads at speeds of more than 40 mph. |
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William Moss hulked spraddlelegged on the hillside, one leg braced higher than the other on the steep part of the slope below the rim. |
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The waves are so steep, they crash so fast and furious I'm more under than up. |
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The old under-powered van ground its way very noisily and rather slowly up the long steep hill out of the town. |
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The motor was untaxed by the steep hill because the vehicle was so lightly loaded. |
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He felt like he was straight and level, but noticed they were in a steep right turn according to the attitude indicator and turn needle. |
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People who've zorbed in New Zealand, say Swiss mountains are too steep to allow the leisurely roll-out that's the real thrill. |
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Thankfully for long serving defender come midfielder Breandan O hAnnaidh, Wicklow are currently on the upward part of a steep curve. |
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The hours tick by but by late afternoon, the first of the wildebeests slide down the steep bank and into the river. |
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But just up the steep river bank and through the brush is an opening. |
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A steep climb through the limestone cliffs leads to the summit. |
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The summit is boggy and flanked to the north by steep heather slopes. |
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The principal surviving part of the structure is the late thirteenth century White Wall and the steep and long flight of steps known as the Breakneck Stairs. |
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As part of the Ring of Fire, California is subject to tsunamis, floods, droughts, Santa Ana winds, wildfires, landslides on steep terrain, and has several volcanoes. |
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Filmed from September to December 1957, Vertigo uses location footage of the San Francisco Bay Area, with its steep hills and tall, arching bridges. |
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One general way for the golf course architect to help is by creating mowable slopes if steep ones are not called for by the strategy of the hole's play. |
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The task was even more challenging when it came to burying their dead, whose coffins had to be carried over rough ground and both up and down exceptionally steep hills. |
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The first day it ran about the streets and up the very steep Beacon Hill. |
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Even a small stream would have steep banks in normal terrains. |
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This method is most commonly used in areas with rolling to steep terrain. |
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In areas with rolling or steep terrain with a coal seam occurring near the top of a ridge or hill, the entire top is removed in a series of parallel cuts. |
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Along the English Channel, the South Coast builds up into steep, white cliffs at Dover, which are often seen as an iconic symbol of England and Britain. |
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Hong Kong's steep terrain and extensive trail network with expansive views attracts hikers, and its rugged coastline provides many beaches for swimming. |
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When the waves are steep, it may be necessary to sail closer to the wind to avoid waves directly on the beam, which create the danger of capsizing. |
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You can now take a steep and scrambly path uphill to the higher, waymarked path, or else return to the roadside for the official start of that same path. |
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Below the steep eastern face of Harrison Stickle lie Stickle Tarn and its Ghyll, thus ensuring that all drainage from the fell is to Great Langdale. |
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From the top of the valley, steep motor roads lead west over the Hardknott Pass to Eskdale and east over the Wrynose Pass to the Langdale valleys. |
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The next summer he summoned his knights to impose a steep tax. |
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The other type of rider or puncheur have similarly small physiques to climbing specialists but possess more power which may give them an advantage in short but steep climbs. |
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Steam locomotives built for steep rack and pinion railways frequently have the boiler tilted relative to the wheels, so that the boiler remains roughly level on steep grades. |
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Some locomotives are designed specifically to work steep grade railways, and feature extensive additional braking mechanisms and sometimes rack and pinion. |
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The steep rake of the windshield enhances the fast lines of the exterior. |
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On her rounds, she preferred to walk around Lewes via the twittens, the steep high-walled alleyways that ran betwixt and between the old buildings of the town. |
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Today, the woodland that remains largely exists where deforestation has been inhibited by steep slopes or the layer of clay with flints which is difficult to plough. |
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The front edge of the wave is steep and the trailing edge flatter. |
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Until 1513, Henry continued the policy of his father, to allow Irish lords to rule in the king's name and accept steep divisions between the communities. |
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The second group, otherwise known as the Furness Fells or Coniston Fells, have as their northern boundary the steep and narrow Hardknott and Wrynose passes. |
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The steep but sweeping slopes, deep folds and smooth texture can best be described as resembling a heavy sheet of velvet laid over a supporting frame. |
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The front load on these mutual funds is a steep five percent. |
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Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect. |
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It is closely related to bathmophobia, which is a fear of stairs or steep slopes, and climacophobia, which is a fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling down stairs. |
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Low-season competition between the several backpackers and many guesthouses in town keeps prices down, but in high season expect steep price hikes and book ahead. |
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Beyond the ridge rises again to High Crag, a steep climb on scree. |
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Arcs under extension have a steep geothermal gradient and underplating of the crust by mafic magma may transfer sufficient heat to induce anatexis. |
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In the steep hill wheat country of Palouse in the Northwest of the United States, steep ground meant moving machinery around was problematic and prone to rolling. |
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Generally, the slopes above Thirlmere are steep and grassy, whilst the Patterdale side exhibits rockier features, due to cirque glaciation on the north east side of the ridge. |
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The fell stands south of the village of Threlkeld and the A66 road, and it forms the steep eastern side of the tranquil valley of St John's in the Vale. |
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The steep slopes of the mountains show the vertical heave of the earth. |
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Apart from a few sandy beaches, the coast is mostly steep, with high cliffs and notable signs of erosion such as caverns and isolated rock pillars. |
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In 1556 Ivan annexed the Astrakhan Khanate, destroyed the largest slave market on the Volga, and had a new fortress built on a steep hill overlooking the river. |
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This western face of Clough Head, is steep, rough and rocky. |
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The steep price rises in the Spanish Netherlands were sometimes accompanied by food shortages, however, leading to an eventual relaxation of this embargo. |
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The Mantaro River bisects the valley, emerging from a steep gorge at the northern end of the valley and entering another steep gorge at its southern end. |
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Land reclamation in the 17th century transformed Macau into a peninsula with generally flat terrain, though numerous steep hills still mark the original land mass. |
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On the steep slope and with a strong headwind the plane stopped quickly. |
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These distinctive yellow trams are one of the tourist icons of modern Lisbon, and their size is well suited to the steep hills and narrow streets of the central city. |
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Beyond this, the descent is steep and rough though mainly grassy. |
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People began hoarding precious silver as there was progressively less of it, forcing the ratio of the value of copper to silver into a steep decline. |
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These policies faced a steep decline in the 1930s, when prominent representatives as well as many others were killed by NKVD as part of the Great Purge. |
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For this reason, some of the best wines come from vineyards planted on quite steep hills, conditions which would make most other agricultural products uneconomic. |
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Slumping happens on steep hillsides, occurring along distinct fracture zones, often within materials like clay that, once released, may move quite rapidly downhill. |
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Chalk has greater resistance to weathering and slumping than the clays with which it is usually associated, thus forming tall steep cliffs where chalk ridges meet the sea. |
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A JOGGER is recovering after falling down a steep slope in Sedgley. |
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These are often seen in the field as flat surfaces above steep crags, the crags themselves being formed due to the more crystalline, lower portions of each flow. |
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The walls are generally very steep and can be near vertical. |
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An oceanic or submarine plateau is a large, relatively flat elevation that is higher than the surrounding relief with one or more relatively steep sides. |
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They are hunted by locals in very steep and heavily vegetated terrain. |
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The species has shown a steep decline and is critically endangered. |
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Hammond was left far behind as he was unable to get his lorry in gear, and Clarkson took the lead until he forgot to change down for a steep hill and stalled. |
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The bell rings, and the herd rush violently down into a steep place in the fore part of the vessel, and the Captain amuses us while the pabulation is going on. |
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Conversely, for an island which consists of a plateau surrounded by steep cliffs, it is possible to use smaller intervals as the height increases. |
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The continental margin, between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain, comprises a steep continental slope followed by the flatter continental rise. |
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In the wild, deer browsing of yews is often so extensive that wild yew trees are commonly restricted to cliffs and other steep slopes inaccessible to deer. |
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The bank was so steep that a refuge siding was required at the station in the event of engines having to leave some of their load behind to get up the hill. |
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The steep gradient of the Rath was at this time constructed, and in 1939 a Town Hall was opened on Hamilton Terrace, at that time possessing an inbuilt fire station. |
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This left the two river valleys of the Rhondda with narrow, steep sided slopes which would dictate the layout of settlements from early to modern times. |
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The distinction between a hill and a mountain is unclear and largely subjective, but a hill is universally considered to be less tall and less steep than a mountain. |
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These rocks were cut by fast flowing rivers, the Irwell and its tributaries, to form steep valleys with sides 600 feet in high and a narrow valley floor. |
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Their cliffs, white with black stains, are steep and forbidding and interspersed with karstic fissures and caves, which were often used for burials. |
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Harold's forces deployed in a small, dense formation at the top of steep slope, with their flanks protected by woods and marshy ground in front of them. |
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The eastern slopes down to the Adriatic Sea are steep, while the western slopes form foothills on which most of peninsular Italy's cities are located. |
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The descent from this pass was steep, and the Carthaginians were having a hard time marching down this side of the pass, especially the baggage animals. |
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The southern slopes are rather steep, overlooking the hamlets of Ramsor and Wootton, while the north is more gently sloped towards the Staffordshire Moorlands. |
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Volcanoes with rhyolitic magma commonly erupt explosively, and rhyolitic lava flows are typically of limited extent and have steep margins, because the magma is so viscous. |
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