"steep contrast" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a significant difference between two or more things. For example: "This year's good economic performance is in stark contrast to last year's recession."
The time-intensity curve was steep, and contrast enhancement was observed from an early phase (Fig. 2b).
The 3D subducting PHS restricts the centroid depths to depths ranging above the oceanic Moho of the PHS, where a steep velocity contrast exists.
It is assumed that the maxima of magnitude (Blakely and Simpson 1986) is located where steep density contrasts.
Nonetheless, flatter quasispecies retain a high maximum replication rate, comparable to that of steep solutions (in contrast to Elena et al. 2007), whereas the average replication rate is even higher (in table 1 the average replication rate is calculated taking into account only units of replication, and not nonviable individuals).
Microclimate variations are also important in mountain regions, with different aspects of steep slopes exhibiting contrasting conditions due to variations in precipitation and solar energy receipt.
The implication of the crossover effect is that the neural response function has been flattened at lower contrasts (10%), and has become steeper at high contrast relative to the unadapted function.
British collecting in this field is in steep decline in startling contrast with the strength of the English trade, which is about to demonstrate its continuing pre-eminence on the international scene.
In contrast with steep rises in London and elsewhere in England and Wales, the rises in Scotland have been relatively modest, ominous for the party's hopes in May's Scottish parliamentary election.
Damage to (text {OAS}_{text {mg}}) performance due to increasing (p_{text {neg}}) appears very gradual (in strong contrast to steep (text {OAS}_{text {mg}}) drops observed for the Uniform Threshold Model).
Washington Heights, a mostly Latino enclave perched near the northern tip of the island of Manhattan, begins where the flat streets of the Upper West Side contrast into steep hills.
