Sentence examples for slopes acting from inspiring English sources

This caused a rise in groundwater and formation of extensive calcretised rootmats on valley floors and slopes acting to 'blanket' terraces 1 and 2. The thickness and longevity of this blanket is shown to restrict depth of incision in subsequent phases (T3, T4).

We describe the slope processes acting on Camaldoli Hill, the main volcanic feature of the Neapolitan area whose geological evolution and setting have been reconstructed.

"V" mask consists of a peak point (P), a localization point (O), and two slope lines acting as decision line (LDL and UDL lines).

In the 1965 Taal deposits, Moore (1967) reported DB wavelengths (length in our nomenclature) decreasing from 19 m in proximal areas to 4 m at 2.5 km from the volcano, the evolution occurring over the shortest distance where slope was acting against flow direction.

Sailer was a champion skier for more than a decade, with about 170 major victories, and his success on the slopes led to acting roles in movies.

Such landslides are driven by inertial forces acting on slopes and can vary in size from individual rock blocks of a few m3 in volume to catastrophic rock avalanches of many Mm3, which can claim many thousands of lives.

The team concludes that during the earthquake a slab of sediment 20 km by 40 km and up to 2 km thick slid about 300 meters down the steep slope of Japan Trench, "acting like a piston".

The effect of overland water flow on slope stability is accounted for by the additional pore pressure that results the shear stress acting on the slope.

A generic soil element has an effective normal stress (σn) in the direction normal to the slope, and a consolidation shear stress (τc) acting in the plane of the slope parallel to the dip.

Overland water flow may add to the pore pressure and the flow motion causes a shear stress acting on the slope.

In Equation (16), the shear stress of the overland water flow acting on the slope τ w can be derived by using hydraulics, as follows, {tau}_w={gamma}_wRJ={gamma}_wl sin theta (17).