The project included collection and identification of all stone fragments, even small ones, from the Acropolis and its slopes and the attempt was made to restore as much as possible using reassembled original material-with new marble from Mount Penteli used sparingly.

From Kampong Cham the gradient slopes very gently, and inundation of areas along the river occurs at flood stage — June through November — through breaks in the natural levees that have built up along its course.

Its landmass slopes upward from south to north, culminating in the highlands of its northern cape.

Slope stability is the analysis of soil covered slopes and its potential to undergo movement.

He concluded that, in the relatively recent past, Switzerland had been another Greenland ; that instead of a few glaciers stretching across the areas referred to, one vast sheet of ice, originating in the higher Alps, had extended over the entire valley of northwestern Switzerland until it reached the southern slopes of the Jura, which, though they checked and deflected its further extension, did not prevent the ice from reaching in many places the summit of the range.

It also receives the waters from the-long Lake George, so its basin collects waters from the northwestern slopes of the Green Mountains of Vermont, the north and west slopes of the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, and the northern most eastern peaks of the Adirondack Mountains of New York State.

Gorongoza, rising isolated with precipitous outer slopes, has been likened in its aspect to a frowning citadel.

It is formed from a multitude of water-courses which descend the slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes south of the gigantic volcano of Sangay ; but it soon reaches the plain, which commences where it receives its Cusulima branch.

Because of the size of Olympus Mons and its shallow slopes, an observer standing on the Martian surface would be unable to view the entire profile of the volcano, even from a great distance.

The plateau slopes moderately to east and south, its remarkably uniform surface interrupted only by the narrow valleys carved by the westward-flowing tributaries of the Río Paraná.

It has its headwaters in the Ecuadorian province of Cotapaxi, flowing off of the northwestern slopes of the volcano Cotopaxi and known as the Patate River.

Across the peninsula as a whole, the plateau slopes toward the east from an elevation of 1, 360 meters in the west to 750 meters at its easternmost limit.

As Middle-eastern merchants traded with the Bashkirs and other people living on the western slopes of the Urals as far north as Great Perm, since at least the 10th century medieval mideastern geographers had been aware of the existence of the mountain range in its entirety, stretching as far as to the Arctic Ocean in the north.

A villa might be quite palatial, such as the imperial villas built on seaside slopes overlooking the Bay of Naples at Baiae ; others were preserved at Stabiae and Herculaneum by the ashfall and mudslide from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, which also preserved the Villa of the Papyri and its libraries.

It is especially known for its ski resort and slopes during the winter as well as an extensive festival schedule during the summer.

Vesuvius itself underwent major changes – its slopes were denuded of vegetation and its summit changed considerably due to the force of the eruption.

It results from the adiabatic warming of air which has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes.

It rises in the mountainous district known as the Pireneus, west of the Federal District, but its western tributary, the Araguaia River, has its extreme southern headwaters on the slopes of the Serra dos Caiapós.

Wuppertal is known for its steep slopes, its woods and parks, and its suspension railway, the Wuppertal Schwebebahn.

One perspective was that the goat was equated with Christ due to its ability to climb steep slopes and find edible food.

It is located west of the Broadmoor Hotel Resort along the slopes of Cheyenne Mountain's lower north end.

The growth off of the slopes was highlighted in 1990 with the addition of the Shoshone Condominium Hotel and the Yellowstone Conference Center, which increased summer business to the resort.

The Rauhe Alb ( or Alp ) slopes gradually down into the plateau on its southern side, but on the north it appears sometimes rugged and steep, its line broken by isolated projecting hills.

The ilium slopes forward and the body is held closer to the ground than in mammals.

Haymaking is an important farming activity in mountain villages which has become somewhat mechanized recent years, although the slopes are so steep that usually scythes are necessary to cut the grass.

To the southwest of the range is the Armenian Plateau, which slopes southwestward toward the Araks River on the Turkish border.

Nevertheless, Canberra stands as an exemplary city design and is located halfway between the ski slopes and the beach.

The city is sied on the lower slopes of the Taragarh Hill in the Aravalli Range.

The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.

Bursa is settled on the northwestern slopes of Mount Uludağ in the southern Marmara Region.

Bavaria is geographically the same region as the Böhmer Wald ( forested hill slopes ).

This is because they are Umbria areas, situated in the north hillsides or slopes of the mountainous areas, oriented behind the sun in the northern hemisphere, in the shadyside orographic.

Appear mostly occupying favorable areas named geographically Umbrias, this is north hillsides or slopes of the mountainous areas that are oriented behind the sun, be cause the islands are in the northern hemisphere, between 600 and 1500 meters, thus benefiting from the humidity provided by the trade winds to form such a sea of clouds.

However, most vegetation has now been converted to agriculture and forest fragments are now restricted to areas where cultivation is not possible, such as mountain peaks and steep slopes.

One of the largest remnants of Comoros ' once-extensive rain forests is on the slopes of Kartala.

which is grown on the south-facing lower slopes of the Mendip hills.

While there are no ski slopes within Carson City, the city is located close to Heavenly Mountain Resort, Diamond Peak and Mount Rose skiing areas.

Transmontane chaparral or Desert chaparral is found on the eastern slopes of major mountain range systems on the western sides of the deserts of California.

The fort was built by Royalist occupation forces in c. 1643 to the south east of the town, with a similar fort at Mount Ridley on the opposite slopes of what is now Kingswear.

The volcanic soil is rich, and much of El Salvador's coffee is planted on these slopes.

Terrace ( agriculture ) | Terracing is an ancient technique that can significantly slow the rate of water erosion on cultivated slopes.

The Ascending Passage is long, as wide and high as the Descending Passage and slopes up at almost precisely the same angle.

The rainfall pattern is varied, with rain heavier in some of the lowlands and on the northern and eastern slopes of the mountains.

The landscape of Hong Kong is fairly hilly to mountainous with steep slopes.

Hong Kong's terrain is hilly and mountainous with steep slopes.