Sentence examples for slope plateau from inspiring English sources

Up ahead they anticipated a target-rich cavalry environment, in which Wellington's retreating army would be dealt the coup de grâce, but as they breasted the ridge and entered the reverse slope plateau, they were confronted by something totally unexpected: a chequerboard configuration of infantry squares".

Soil units identified: (1) in the metamorphosed black limestone formation are Vertic, Endoleptic Calcisol (Humic) at the upper slope (plateau); both Vertic, Endoleptic Cambisol (Calcaric, Humic) and Vertic Leptosol (Calcaric, Humic) at the middle slope (hill); Hypercalcic Calcisol at the foot slope and Grumic Vertisol (Calcaric, Humic) at the lower slope (valley bottom).

Measurements of femorotibial angle, tibial slope, plateau-patella angle, and Insall-Salvati ratios were charted for each of the 76 knees, before and 6 to 8 weeks after surgery.

In the first discharge curve, a sloping plateau in the range of ~1.5– 0.3 V is observed.

Save for a thin and chintzy-feeling layer of plastic that runs around the rear's outer edges, the only other thing not covered in the scratch-resistant material is a gently sloping plateau containing the 8-megapixel camera pod, LED flash, and rear speaker.

Although rice fields have not been identified yet, the geomorphological study at KSK (Allen 2009; Allen and Silapanth unpublished report) indicates probable cultivation was on gently sloping plateau land and hill slopes in the hinterlands.

The sloping plateau at ~0.8 V is similar to that of graphite anode [37], suggesting Cu/CF evolves graphitic structures, just as verified by characterizations of XRD and Raman.

By analogy, such a precommitment stage corresponds to a gradually sloping plateau between a valley and a mountain such that a ball sitting on this plateau would roll down into the "undifferentiated" valley in the absence of additional energy necessary to make it over the "terminally differentiated" mountain.

The western parts of the Reinhardswald are characterized by flat or gently sloping plateaus, where seasonally moist soils predominate.

The first voltage profiles of pure NbO1.3(1)N0.7(1) show sloping plateaus at 0.9 V and below 0.5 V.

As the heating rate and/or grain size is increased, the onset temperature of the sloped plateau approaches the alloy liquidus temperature and the slope of the plateau approaches zero.