Because the rivers and streams have such steep gradients and are so fast moving, they are erosive instead of depository in nature.

Because bicycles require less steep grades than hikers, bike trails may have multiple switchbacks, while these may not be necessary for hikers.

Because of the steep cliffs around the summit, direct ascents from the city side are limited.

Because New Preston's steep, rocky terrain presents significant constraints to development, most viable development sites were utilized prior to 1900, making contemporary construction of new homes and businesses rare.

Because of the difficulty traversing the steep " Gardner's Mountain ", running north to south through the original Lyman grant of 1761, the settlers of the western portion had different priorities and needs than the rest of Lyman to the east.

Because of the steep hills in the north of the town, the larger settlements are in the south part.

Because Ford relied on gravity to feed fuel to the carburetor rather than a fuel pump, a Model T could not climb a steep hill when the fuel level was low.

Because of the steep rise in elevation and fjords cutting through the terrain, the amount of precipitation is very high.

Because of their extremely steep terrain ( often located in summer at ski resorts ), downhill courses are one of the most extreme and dangerous venues for mountain biking.

Because the bicycle route includes a ride up an extremely steep hill known as " The Beast ", this triathlon is often nicknamed " Beauty and the Beast ".

Because of that, very steep low-pass filters are used on frequencies above 20 kHz ( the theoretical limit of human hearing ) that may introduce slight distortions into the audible-range signal.

Because this is a recently deglaciated fjord with steep slopes and crossed by a major fault, one possibility was a landslide-generated tsunami.

Because the central mountain ranges come close to the coast at the north end of the bay, much of the bay's northerly coastline has deeply eroded tablelands that end in steep seaside cliffs which descend to narrow beaches.

Because of the relatively steep climb, there are three lanes at each end, but only two at the bottom.

In plantations the tree is commonly planted at 3m x 3m spacing on a wide variety of landscapes from flat to moderatly steep hills. Because of selective breeding and more recently the extensive use of Growth Factor seedlings, forests planted since the 1990s are of superior wood with very straight tall trunks without the problem of twin leaders.

Because of the quite steep rise out of the plain, the park is terraced and is over 90 feet higher at the top.

Because of its unstable, steep cliffs this section of the park is closed to visitors.

Because of the extremely long, steep slopes, and dangerous terrain, single mistakes at the wrong moment by some extreme skiers have led them to them to being seriously injured or killed.

Because of the variation in sunlight, shade, and moisture caused by the steep cliffs, several different ecosystems exist in and around the canyon-like gorge.

Because of the hilly topography, these natural drainage channels are narrow and have steep sides and gradients.

Because of the mountainous terrain and the vertical character of the sites chosen for fortification, individual blocks typically emerged from rock faces in a steep hillside or cliff with mined galleries within under rock cover.

Because of steep mountains, avalanches are very common in winter.

Because of the instability of the soil on steep mountains, road-building and clear-cutting operations have led to dangerous landslides and the collapse of mountain slopes.

Because of its steep sides, there are many parts of the gorge on which trees cannot grow, making way for smaller plants.

Because of the extreme degree of banking, Moneypenney had to come up with a way to pave the incline.

Because the majority of traffic passed up the canal, and a boat displaces its own weight in water ( Archimedes ' principle ), considerably more water passed down the incline than up it.

Because of the difference between daytime and nighttime propagation conditions, it has been necessary to evolve different allocation structures for daytime and nighttime broadcasting in the AM band, with many more stations operating during the day than at night.

Because of the simplicity of the molecules, isotopic exchange reactions between elemental halogens and the corresponding carbon tetrahalides would appear to offer particularly fruitful possibilities for obtaining unambiguous basic kinetic data.

Because of weak bonding between the layers, gray arsenic is brittle and has a relatively low Mohs hardness of 3. 5.

Because temperature is defined by the relationship between energy and entropy, such a system's temperature becomes negative, even though energy is being added.

According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!

Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.

Because of the development of themes in the book of Malachi, most scholars assign it to a position between Haggai and Zechariah, slightly before Nehemiah came to Jerusalem in 445 BCE.

Because of the country's geography and long distances between major cities, aviation is also important.

Because the term " humanure " has no authoritative definition it is subject to misuse ; news reporters occasionally fail to correctly distinguish between humanure and " sewer sludge " or " biosolids ".

Because of the absence of scheduled sea transport between the islands, nearly all interisland passenger traffic is by air.

Because these wildlife trading fees often represent a significant source of these CITES offices ' operational budgets, the structure of CITES creates a direct conflict of interest between these offices and the resources they manage.

Because some materials have both useful mineral content and recoverable calorific value, the distinction between alternative fuels and raw materials is not always clear.

Because of the rivalry between Chiang and Li, Chiang refused to allow Nationalist troops loyal to him to aid in the defense of Guangxi and Guangdong, with the result that Communist forces occupied Guangdong in October 1949.

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, " cartoon " came to refer to animation, and the word " cartoon " is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons.

Because of this intimate contact between the player's hand and the production of sound, the clavichord has been referred to as the most intimate of keyboard instruments.

Because the strength of the force falls off rapidly with distance, it is only measurable when the distance between the objects is extremely small.

Because the methods are independent, when one of several methods is in error, it is very unlikely to be in error in the same way as any of the other methods, and a difference between the measurements will be observed.

Because the relational model emphasizes search rather than navigation, it does not make relationships between different entities explicit in the form of pointers, but represents them rather using primary keys and foreign keys.

Because these paired books had to fit a fixed total page length, one or both were usually abridged to fit, and Wollheim often made other editorial alterations — as witness the differences between Poul Anderson's Ace novel War of the Wing-Men and its definitive revised edition, The Man Who Counts.

Because of the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural differences between Yupik and Inuit peoples there is uncertainty as to the acceptance of any term encompassing all Yupik and Inuit people.

Because field hockey teams have one goalkeeper plus ten outfield players as does association football ( soccer ), there are many common formations between the two sports.

Because they see it as a way of elevating themselves from girlhood to womanhood, and thereby a way of differentiating between each other, Thomas argues that to remove FGM is to remove that opportunity to gain authority.

Because Finland was a country with relatively small towns with a small workforce, and many industrial centers were small " islands " surrounded by large rural areas, there was social integrity between the urban and rural workers.

Because of the large influx of fresh water from rivers, especially from the Neva River ( two thirds of the total runoff ), the gulf water has very low salinity – between 0. 2 and 5. 8 ‰ at the surface and 0. 3 – 8. 5 ‰ near the bottom.

Because it is warm, the surface radiates far IR thermal radiation that consists of wavelengths that are predominantly much longer than the wavelengths that were absorbed ( the overlap between the incident solar spectrum and the terrestrial thermal spectrum is small enough to be neglected for most purposes ).