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- tilted somewhat from the horizontal. This results in a long and gentle backslope called a dip slope that conforms with the dip of resistant strata, called...
- ridge with a moderate, generally between 10° and 30°, sloping backslope. Its backslope is a dip slope, that conforms with the dip of a resistant stratum...
- topped by harder rock Homoclinal ridge – Ridge with a moderate sloping backslope and steeper frontslope Inselberg, also known as Monadnock – Isolated,...
- slightly lowered and reduced in steepness by erosion. Dip slopes form the backslopes of cuestas, homoclinal ridges, hogbacks, and flatirons. The frontslopes...
- homoclinal, and typically sedimentary strata. One side of a hogback (its backslope) consists of the surface (bedding plane) of a steeply dipping rock stratum...
- cohesive definition such as hill-tops, shoulders, saddles, foreslopes and backslopes. Some generic landform elements including: pits, peaks, channels, ridges...
- Boston residents. "Fringe activities" occurred on "Mount ****dom", the backslope of Beacon Hill. Beacon Street was established in 1708 from a cow path...
- Missouri and west-central and southwestern Illinois on upland ridgetops, backslopes, and benches adjacent to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers and their...
- angular backslopes. Conversely, on the leeward, or southwest, sides of the islands, the terraces tend to have narrower platforms and gentler backslopes. On...
- well as Kevin Younkin. The name is from the brothers' great-grandmother. Backslope is a brewery in Columbia Falls that opened in 2016. It is owned by Darin...