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The steeply sloping Cnoc na Bhain burial ground, one of Scotland's most beautiful graveyards, contains a memorial and grave of the pioneer aviator, Captain Bertram Dickson.
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The more narrow and steeply sloping southern flank ( left ) has low, rounded terraces, features interpreted as thrust fault s. The volcano's basal escarpment is prominent.
Eventually, as the pit grows deeper, the waterfall collapses to be replaced by a steeply sloping stretch of river bed.
The area is an undulating plateau with the sides of the valley steeply sloping back to the river approximately below.
The area is dominated by the coastal floodplain of the Spercheios River, surrounded by steeply sloping forested limestone mountains.
Built into the steeply sloping bank of the River Wear, Dunelm House is notable internally for the fact that the main staircase linking all five levels of the building runs in an entirely straight line.
* Hilltop, residential area to the north-east of the town built on steeply sloping ground.
Subsequently dedicated to the memory of King Edward VII ( died 1910 ), the extension ( 1911 – 12 ) was built on steeply sloping ground for which Holden designed a linked pair of Portland stone-faced blocks around a courtyard.
The flooded ria that forms the lower reaches of the Dart, with its deep water and steeply sloping valley sides, is a considerable barrier to crossing traffic.
St George's Church ( on a steeply sloping site on the corner of Kirkside Road and Glenluce Road ) is a Victorian red-brick structure completed in 1892 ( architect: Newman & Newman ).
The park is characterized by rolling wooded hills, deep draws, and steeply sloping ridges.
In this area, the walls were supported by a steeply sloping glacis which provided additional protection against both siege weapons and earthquakes.
A. oleraceum is native to Britain and is found in dry, grassy places, usually steeply sloping and calcareous soils, and on open sunny banks in river floodplains.
It found that a steeply sloping detachment fault is associated with the oceanic core complex structure.
Rocky outcrops, steeply sloping stable shores with water vegetation such as bullrushes were also used.
The Renault 5 was styled by Michel Boué, who died before the car's release, the R5 featured a steeply sloping rear hatchback and front dashboard.
It was a 3-storey tower, commanding a strategic view over much of the surrounding countryside, and was eminently defensible, with Lydford Gorge on one side, and the land sloping steeply away from it.
Around the lower slopes of the Orme are landscaped gardens in the Happy Valley and terraces in the Haulfre Garden on the landward facing steeply sloping southern side.
The field is located in a faulted block of Jurassic and older rocks beneath the Hampshire Basin, close to the steeply sloping monocline in the overlying chalk.
Several kilometres south of the castle is Tunnel Beach, so named because this quiet beach is only accessible through a steeply sloping tunnel cut into the 60-metre high cliffs by the Cargill family.
This crater is circular and bowl-shaped, with only a small floor at the center of the steeply sloping interior walls.
Whales frequent these coastal waters because squid and other deep-sea creatures are brought from the deep Hikurangi Trench to the surface by the combination currents and steeply sloping seafloor.
Once the richest abbey in the north of England ,, it lies in what are now the Yorkshire Museum Gardens, on a steeply sloping site to the west of York Minster.
The island is steeply sloping, and deeply dissected by ravines radiating from a central range that peaks at Mount Hauturu whose altitude is.
The land here is steeply sloping, as it is the foothills of Mount Cargill.
This, in combination with a steeply sloping front windscreen and glass upper-door / roof panels ( a total of six separate glass pieces overall ), gives the Sera its characteristic " bubble-like " canopy.
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Alternatively there is a somewhat eroded path leading steeply up the Coire na Tulaich which, in summer conditions, allows walkers to ascend the peaks, reaching the ridge about half a kilometre west of Stob Dearg.
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The South African plateau, as far as about 12 ° S, is bounded east, west and south by bands of high ground which fall steeply to the coasts.
After reports from the Red Flag exercises in Nevada in the late 1970s that the light grey under surfaces became highly visible against the ground when the aircraft banked steeply at the low altitudes it was assigned to, the disruptive pattern was later continued to include the under surfaces as well on all Vulcans.
For landing, high drag allows the aeroplane to descend steeply to the runway without building excess speed resulting in a longer ground run.
The ground slopes steeply from the castle to the rivers Corve and Teme to the south and west about below.
Its summit is small compared to the plateau of Helvellyn and offers better views north-westward, as the ground falls steeply away from it on this side.
His favourite maneuver was the chandelle ( a 180-degree turn while climbing steeply ) in strings of up to a dozen, spiralling from close to the ground.
Buildings might sag or lean, showing the ground tilted up steeply as a symbol of defiance of tradition.
The ground falls away steeply on the north, east, south and southwest sides, where there are various other turrets, though not very scientifically disposed.
This " horizontal " chimney ( parallel to the ground, which actually rises steeply to the moors ) was used to carry poisonous flue gases from the Rookhope lead smelting works up onto the high moor.
From Edge Hill, the ground drops steeply, levels out, then rises to Battleton Holt and a little beyond it are the Oaks and Graveground Copice.
The plane came in low over Stradbroke Road and the pilot was killed instantly as the plane dived steeply into the ground and exploded on impact in the field at the bottom of Silkstone Crescent at 11. 22 pm.
The path of the main road through Newcastle ran from the single Tyne bridge, through Sandhill to the Side, a narrow street which climbed steeply on the north-east side of the castle hill until it reached the higher ground alongside St Nicholas ’ Church.
Their nesting is done on the ground, and they create their nests so that they will be hidden amongst rocks, roots, or tufts of grass on steeply sloping ground.
The house began, probably in the early 19th century ( a datestone of 1694 is of unknown provenance ) as a thatched cottage ornée, set at the base of a knoll with the ground falling away steeply to the north to the Whiteadder Water.
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A market that is steeply backwardated — i. e., one where there is a very steep premium for material available for immediate delivery — often indicates a perception of a current shortage in the underlying commodity.
Until 2006 it was one of the Conservative party's safest seats, but the by-election of that year saw the party's electoral majority fall steeply from over 13, 000 ( in the 2005 election ) to just over 600 votes ( see below-" Election results ").
The Peregrine Falcon reaches faster speeds than any other animal on the planet when performing the stoop, which involves soaring to a great height and then diving steeply at speeds of over, hitting one wing of its prey so as not to harm itself on impact.
This location is a steeply wooded valley, with Carn Brea on one side and the now-called Bullers Hill on the other.
Moving away from the Village, in the opposite direction to Shooters Hill, the area termed as present day Charlton branches out towards Blackheath Royal Standard in one direction and steeply downhill in the opposite direction towards the shopping areas.
It is formed by one narrow coastal area on the Caribbean Sea, of about 160 km of length, that falls steeply to the sea.
He was forced to create an egg-shaped oval with one corner tighter, narrower, and more steeply banked because he promised Ramsey that the new track wouldn't disturb Ramsey's minnow pond at the west side of the property.
The line to Manchester via Hollinwood, which had been opened on 17 May 1880, and which was much less steeply graded, took most of the traffic: from 1958 only one passenger service ( an early morning train from Rochdale to Manchester ) had been using the line.
The track long advertised its banking as 36 degrees, which at one time made it the most steeply banked track used by NASCAR.
Many of the formations include quite steeply dipping ( tilted ) layers of metamorphic rocks ( presumably associated with one or more episodes of mountain-building that produced the Appalachian Mountains, and related physiographic provinces, in Georgia ).
The line was perfectly straight, and was sometimes referred to as The Big Dipper, similar to a roller coaster, going steeply down one side of the valley and then up the other side.
Near the apex, just below the steeply pitched roof, are the tower's 4. 8 m ( 16 ft ) diameter clock faces, one on each of the four facades.
Two of the most popular trails ascend to the summit of Pinnacle Mountain: The West Summit Trail is one of the most heavily used trails in Arkansas, while the East Summit Trail ascends even more steeply up several rock scrambles.
Water gun data illustrate that the high-amplitude reflections extend downward in two zones, one that projects steeply ( i. e., the master fault with likely gas / fluid ) and another that projects laterally along apparent stratigraphy ( i. e., a potential gas / fluid charged stratal unit ).
As the town slopes steeply away from its shore and harbour, and the museum is situated some way inland, the building's central tower is one of the town's tallest structures and commands panoramic views across the whole region.
The interior end of the valley, the site of a seasonally spectacular waterfall, rises steeply to the plateau which comprises much of the center of the island, and is one of the few ascents thereto.
The rest of the land area has varying elevations ranging from gently sloping areas, land sloping in one general direction to steeply undulating and rolling land sloping in many directions.
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