Sentence examples for massive sloping from inspiring English sources

The track was surrounded by massive sloping embankments of earth for the accommodation of the spectators (some 40,000), except to the north where the natural slope of the hill sufficed.

Often there are only a few dozen feet of buildable land between the water and the massive slopes that descend to it.

Often called the Sassi (which means stone), or the City of Stone, this part of Matera is a maze of caves, churches — some dating back to Roman times — zigzagging steps and stone facades carved from a massive slope of yellowed tufa.

However, the role of massive slope failures in denudational unloading and landscape evolution has not been extensively studied.

In the case of eastern boundary fault of the Sichuan-Yunnan block it is apparent that high magnitude earthquakes have potential to generate massive slope failures.

Twenty-two different mass movements in bedrock in the Badakhshan Province of northeastern Afghanistan were studied for this paper, including large rock falls and rock slides, along with massive slope-failure complexes with many types and rates of movement.

It was uncomfortable, sure, but I was legitimately afraid I was going to slip, roll down that massive slope, and die.

It is a typical Toghlaqi structure with an octagonal plan built in rubble masonry (with massive battered sloping walls on east, west and southern directions) on a raised platform with door ways in each cardinal direction.

As we look from Cockatoo Island to the shore and see the massive houses and gardens sloping down to the water, we realise that their owners paid millions of dollars just to get the same views and smell of saltwater that we have here.

The existing model has highlighted the role of inherited geological-structural setting combined with Quaternary morpho-evolution in the onset of rock-slope deformational processes until paroxysmal phases (i.e. occurrence of massive rock slope failures).

Massive scree slopes drop steeply down to a literally boiling river, the fissure where it escapes the rock billowing steam into the air.