We looked north-west at the valley we had just ascended, a beautiful, snow-filled trough which I knew now to be full of hidden danger.
A system known as a midlatitude trough — which often causes severe winter storms — is moving across the country from the west.
Major faulting from southwest to northeast formed the middle Zambezi trough, which is now partially flooded by the Lake Kariba reservoir.
The sound is the submerged northern end of the Cowlitz-Puget trough, which extends for some 350 miles (565 km) between the Cascade Range and the Coast Ranges.
That is because a system known as a midlatitude trough — which often causes severe winter storms — was moving across the country from the west.
Only one man needed to keep the cloth moving properly in the trough, which was filled with water and fuller's earth.
They report that a wave of such height could result from any tsunami unleashed by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake in the Nankai trough, which runs east of Japan's main island of Honshu to the southern island of Kyushu.
The companies will begin producing gas from two areas of the Xihu trough, which is offshore, about 250 miles southeast of Shanghai, and explore three more areas of the trough.
These hold the cores — the most recent ones were drilled two years ago in the Nankai Trough — which are about 2 inches in diameter and 12 inches or more long.
And Ms. Carpenter proffered a delicate balsa wood model of what she called a drink trough, which would turn out to be two steel plates welded into a V-shaped container, set on steel pipe legs arranged in a series of angles.
A decline of 25% from peak to trough, which now seems likely, would push between 2m and 2.5m borrowers into negative equity (with a house worth less than the loan on it), according to Michael Saunders, an economist at Citigroup, a bank.Estimates of Britain's exposure to high-risk mortgage loans vary.
