Unfortunately but perhaps inevitably, "Spirit Control" steadily loses elevation after this charged opening sequence.
I hurtle with him from the capital of Quito down two and a half hours of gut-stirring switchbacks, losing elevation with every turn.
This might explain why the glacier has been observed to be thinning and lowering, or losing elevation, over time, they noted.
Dokka's calculations showed that the fastest-sinking areas, among them the southern part of Plaquemines Parish, were losing elevation at the rate of more than an inch a year.
All of the benchmarks had lost elevation, and while none had been lowered by more than a foot, some had come close: C 195, near the town of Port Sulphur, had lost nearly nine inches; A 152, near the town of Myrtle Grove, had lost eight.
West of longitude 84° E, the eastern Tien Shan ridges fork, trending to the southwest and northwest, and enclose the vast depression of the Ili (Kazakh, Ile; Chinese, Yili) River valley in Kazakhstan, which gradually widens and loses elevation as it proceeds westward.
They apparently ride wind deflected off the ground to regain lost elevation, Bishop says.
Despite a rise in marsh accretion from 1.0 mm yr−1 circa 1900 to 3.6 mm yr−1 at present, the marsh surface has lost elevation relative to tidal datums.
Uniola paniculata did show an increase in abundance as dunes lost elevation on foredunes.
In 1998, Hofman et al. reported in Nature that subjects with modified pinnae shape lost the elevation detection ability at the beginning but gradually regained that full ability [18].
