Sentence examples for tilted edges from inspiring English sources

Subsequent erosion wore away many of the weaker sedimentary layers at a faster rate than the basalt layers, leaving the abruptly tilted edges of the basalt sheets exposed, creating the distinct linear ridge and dramatic cliff faces visible today.

Shadows lengthened to stretch thousands of miles across the planet's famous rings this summer as they slowly tilted edge-on to the Sun, which they do every 15 years, casting into sharp relief every bump and wiggle and warp in the buttery and wafer-thin bands that are the solar system's most popular scenic attraction.

"Things become very messy". Biologists with high-speed video cameras have been able to document the oscillating motions of insect wings as they move up and down and change pitch by tilting the edges, and the complex motions are beginning to be incorporated in the design of robotic "insect" wings.

The central shield, named the Canadian or Laurentian Shield by geologists, consists of a low plateau (averaging about 1,400 feet [400 metres] in elevation) that is tilted at its edges and is most depressed at Hudson Bay, its centre.

The bull float is pushed across the surface of the wet concrete with the front edge tilted up, (by holding the handle down) and pulled back with the back edge tilted up (by holding the handle high).

Pack dishes on the edge, tilted sideways, instead of packing flat to reduce breakage.

The nanotips grown at locations far enough from the sample edges are aligned vertically, while those around the sample edges are tilted and point away from the sample center.

A quantum spin Hall phase is characterized by helical edge and tilted bulk states.

Moreover, this back-projection analysis demonstrated that when the triangular model is tilted completely on its edge (where it may appear more linear in projection) its dimensions (max length = 300 Å) are significantly smaller than the maximum end-to-end length obtained for the linear reconstruction (max length = 385 Å).

The effect produces a kind of edge displacement or tilt of the checkerboard edges with the induction of the bulge.

This experimental study generates a new set of Nusselt number (Nu) data from two opposite upper and lower edges of a tilted reciprocating anti-gravity open tubular thermosyphon that emulates closely the realistic 'shaker-bored' cooling conditions inside a piston of marine propulsive diesel engine.