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Longer and steeper slopes may result in more solids accumulating in the basin.
Now that I've given you tips on going faster with more control, you're probably graduating to the steeper stuff.
Although thicker hachures indicate steeper slopes, hachure density remains constant throughout the map area except in areas of gentle slope.
It is now commonly accepted that the dip of the steeper part of a listric normal fault is approximately 60 deg.
For all we knew it could well have carried on getting steeper, ending at an icefall or in a crevasse field.
On steeper downgrades, a higher acceleration will be achievable through the assistance of gravity.
Without skeuomorphism, users may find a steeper learning curve with the new operating system.
Nearshore, the seaward flanks, in the lee of a SSW-directed alongshore flow, are steeper.
Once you've gone down that road it is mostly downhill and getting steeper by day.
Pupils soon latch on to this, and the spiral of decline suddenly becomes much steeper.
The gradients associated with these profiles also vary between sand and shingle beaches, the latter being generally steeper.
At one point, they measured the angle of the roof gables at Machu Picchu and advised the artist to make them steeper.
Sighing, she sat with her back to the uphill slope, much steeper than the one she had just climbed, and considered her situation.
The Short Leachas is steeper and involves some scrambling, while the Long Leachas is technically easier.
She felt her acute fear of heights returning as the path became less smooth and considerably steeper and narrower.
The path now climbed stiffly, switching back and forth on the steeper sections, otherwise crossing the face of the right hand valley wall.
The Yankee Group projects steeper year-over-year growth for satellite, broadband wireless and other technologies.
The lineations show shallow easterly plunges in the north becoming steeper in the south of the Welverdiend shear zone.
In both cases, the experimental curves are slightly steeper than those calculated.
Higher, steeper slopes of the Vosges have thin topsoil, with subsoils of weathered gneiss, granite, sandstone, schist, and volcanic sediments.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And at its eastern end the hill rises to form a truer akropolis, with a steeper path up to it, than can be seen at Segni or Norba.
As the alluvion is carried on, the slope of the stream will become steeper and steeper the higher one goes.
You see, the ashes get looser as we climb higher, and the mountain steeper.
Presently this incline became even steeper, and we found ourselves climbing upon hands and knees among loose rubble which slid from beneath us.
But, as Carmena remarked, the steeper the grade the sooner it was ended.
At the edge of the steeper climb to come they stopped, breathing fast.
There was yet an upper staircase, of a steeper inclination and of contracted dimensions, to be ascended, before the garret story was reached.
The steeper the descent, the faster, of course, we could go.
With the course's rare permanence comes bigger obstacles, muddier challenges, steeper mountains and deeper waters.
The finer the volcanic ash, the steeper and more conical is the mountain.
They had entered the mountains now, and were progressing more slowly, for the trail was steeper and very rocky.
Back at the farm-house, Daylight mounted and rode on away from the ranch and into the wilder canons and steeper steeps beyond.
The steeper the slope of the bell, the thinner may be the abacus.
As we neared the cruiser I rose as though to pass above her, so that she would do just what she did do, rise at a steeper angle to force me still higher.
For some time the ground had been rougher and steeper, until I had been forced to scale a considerable height that had carried me from the glacier entirely.
The slope was at times quite steep, the path we had chosen was marked, somewhat forbiddingly for me, 'Quite Tough', though there were shorter, steeper trails.
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