Sentence examples for steep relief from inspiring English sources

The basins eventually fill with sediment, and the ranges typically tens of kilometres long and from a few to 20 30 kilometres wide often tilt, with steep relief on one side and a gentle slope on the other.

They are often triggered by a combination of steep relief and long lasting rainfalls.

Flash floods and debris flows are iconic hazards in mountainous regions with steep relief, high rainfall intensities, rapid snowmelt events, and abundant sediments.

Thus, a steep relief was created keeping most lagoonal parts within the deep subtidal realm in which sediment production was not efficient enough to fill up accommodation space.

Despite its extension and high altitude, the steep relief of Sierra Nevada and its southern location conditioned a significantly lower glaciated surface (104.6 km2) with respect to other Iberian massifs.

By comparing the geomorphic features before and after the earthquake, we find that the Wenchuan earthquake smoothed the steep relief and caused a co-seismic uplift of the Longmen Shan region.

The favorite landscape views mainly contained steeper reliefs, water flows, and traditional human activities.

These LMUs provide a framework that can potentially be applied to other fire-dependent western forests with steep topographic relief.

We examine the Kings River area as a pilot site with potential regional application to the Sierra Nevada range, and possibly wider applicability to fire-prone landscapes with steep topographic relief in the western USA.

The current confluence of changing environmental conditions and need to manage forest resources for multiple objectives requires a flexible place-based strategy to guide future decisions both in the Sierra Nevada as well as other fire-dependent western forests with steep topographic relief.

It is hard to imagine his life ending that way, reading what he wrote a few years earlier, on a morning steeped in relief.