It has a low relief crest but with steeper flanks.
However, horst-graben structures entering the Japan Trench are much smaller, lower-relief features (average throw of approximately 122 m and fault spacing of approximately 2 km), have steeper flanks (approximately 50° to 80° fault dips) and have smaller variations in sediment thickness.
We contoured along the steep flank of river canyon terraced for farm plots like a big green wedding cake.
A steep flank of the mountain rose behind the Samatenje, bare and burning, and I asked him if it had been forest when he was a boy.
Local factors influencing in-situ stress have been identified in these zones of the tunnels, related to geological structures of high compressive tectonic stress regimes including thrust faults, folds with steep flank dip, or with geomechanical anisotropies in contact zones between rock formations of different strengths.
The inversion structures include a large (45-km long) asymmetric fold (Yelleg Anticline) with a steep flank overlying the southeastern (main) bounding fault of the inverted half graben as well as some right-stepped en echelon folds overlying the northwestern bounding fault of the half graben.
But the ridge — with its bowed saplings and broken trees underfoot, the steep flank of the mountain studded with caves, the wild game wide-eyed and reckless with the starvation of winter — trapped him between his new, broadening senses and the vaguely familiar smell of the village below.
The Incas chose this place, Yábar said, for its "Goldilocks" climate — not too hot, not too cold — well protected from friajes, chilly downdrafts off the steep flank of the Andes, and from Antarctic cold fronts that regularly send temperatures below zero just a few miles away.
As we angled up the island's steep flank, we came upon a red fox sleeping just off the trail, its bushy tail wrapped around it like a muffler.
Malvern's rapid urbanisation during the latter half of the 19th century spread eastwards and northwards from Great Malvern, the traditional town centre on the steep flank of the Worcestershire Beacon, and engulfed the manors and farms in the immediate area.
