Sentence examples for base of a slope from inspiring English sources

Colluvium, soil and debris that accumulate at the base of a slope by mass wasting or sheet erosion.

Fifteen minutes after leaving the town, he told us to park our Land Cruiser at the base of a slope and ascend by foot.

LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON, Utah — At the base of a slope that at this time of year usually tests the skills of mountain bikers, roughly 60 skiers and snowboarders, hoping to get first tracks on the mountain, waited for the 8 a.m. opening of the tram at Snowbird resort.

Recent physical model studies of landslide behaviour in loose, granular slopes have illustrated that the soil at the base of a slope may be of heightened risk of liquefaction as this area is located directly in the path of monotonic shearing events (i.e. localised toe failures) and is often saturated by groundwater.

The boats, however, had drifted slightly off course: instead of landing at the base of the road, many soldiers found themselves at the base of a slope.

The clustering likely reflects deposit natural variance related to depositional processes, for example, deposition at the base of a slope, but may also be attributed to systematic uncertainty resulting from the isopach map preparation process.

The homogeneous semi-conducting PANI-HS based ER fluid (10 vol%) exhibited typical ER characteristics according with the conductivity model based on a slope of 1.5.

About 10 stepped fans have been identified, most at the base of a steep slope emptying into a basin like an impact crater.

Nothing, he said, can be as bad as a Fourth of July concert he played in the late 1960s with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, at the base of a ski slope.

My pond, dug at the base of a steep slope, features enormous boulders and, at its deepest point, a good spring that was once used to water cows all summer.

His studio is split between a pair of buildings, one wood, the other a quasi-monastic glass-and-concrete retreat, on a low terrace above the Rhine at the base of a huge slope, facing pretty snowcapped mountains.