Sentence examples for major slope from inspiring English sources

Future climatic change could render the system prone to destabilisation, through either extreme flood events or through major slope failures.

Fortunately, before the major slope failure happened, the local authority understood the situation and resettled the local people to safe place.

Large landslide and lacustrine deposits are common within the valley fills and represent periods of major slope instability and possible damming of drainages.

Major slope failures and debris flows were triggered beyond the ice margins, and ponded melt water led to small outburst floods.

It is interesting to note that no major slope failures in the form of landslides have been observed on the hill slopes except in the periglacial zone in the upper catchment area and higher altitude zone elsewhere in Kullu Valley.

However, Urlaub et al. (2013) instead showed that the ages of landslides on passive margins can be described by a temporally random Poisson distribution and therefore do not show a positive correlation between the frequency of major slope failures on passive margins and sea level during the past 180,000 years.

Bright patches of less red tint appear on the major slopes of Amalthea, but the nature of this color is currently unknown.

We investigate a previously unrecorded rock avalanche deposit (Yadong rock avalanche) that resulted from a major mountain slope failure on the northwest slopes of Mt. Chomo Lhari in the Eastern Himalayas.

Both construction-stage monitoring and operation-stage monitoring are very much needed for a major rock slope project.

c Reduced Major Axis Slope (values closer to 1 indicate better agreement, min, max = unbounded).

Accordingly, the standardized-major-axis slope (solid line) was very close to one, and the permutation test showed no significant deviation from the pattern expected if deep-sea colonization had no effect on body size evolution (n = 254; b = 1.020; permutation p = 0.476).