This results in a distinctive starburst of faults and fractures, often lying atop a broad, gently sloping topographic rise.
One house had a gable roof: the classic, inverted V-shape in which two sloping planes rise from two parallel walls and meet along a center line.
Brown, gravelly slopes rise steeply from the river toward snow-capped peaks beyond view.
Their densely forested slopes rise to 2,208 feet (673 m) in Mount Kalmit.
The highland slopes rise abruptly in the west and more gently in the east.
The volcanic island's mountainous slopes rise directly from the sea, reaching an elevation of some 4,000 feet (1,200 metres) at Mount Temetiu.
No statues, no pagodas; just the spectacular, snow-capped backdrop of Mount Mikasa, whose thickly wooded pine slopes rise abruptly over a grassy plain.
On its northern and western slopes rise the Juruena and Guaporé rivers, both tributaries of the Amazon; from the range's southern flanks come headwaters of the Paraguay River.
On their slopes rise the Murray, Murrumbidgee, and Tumut rivers, which flow inland, and the Snowy River, which flows southward to Bass Strait.
Its northern and eastern slopes rise from the broad alluvial plain of the Aras River, about 3,300 feet (1,000 metres) above sea level; its southwestern slopes rise from a plain about 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) above sea level; and on the west a low pass separates it from a long range of other volcanic ridges extending westward toward the eastern Taurus ranges.
