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Example sentences for "highly inclined"

  • It occurs at intervals along the base of the mountain, reposing against the primitive rocks, in an erect or highly inclined position.

  • They are separated from the first range of primitive, by more elevated cliffs of a similar sandstone, having its strata in a highly inclined position.

  • The slate rock about the hot springs is highly inclined, often a good deal flinty in its composition, and as far as we have observed, contains no organised remains.

  • As we have before mentioned, it is found in the vicinity of the river Platte, in a highly inclined position, covering a narrow margin immediately at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.

  • The porcelain earth was observed only at one place where the beds were highly inclined, and there it appeared to replace the sandstones of other parts of the deposit.

  • The ridge was a mass of black slate rock, in highly inclined strata, on which no snow lay, and which absorbed so much heat from the sun, that a number of minute plants were not only vegetating but in full flower.

  • A very young leaf, only 3/4 inch in length, highly inclined upwards, was observed for four days.

  • With several seedlings, the cotyledons assume a highly inclined position at night during so short a period of their life, that a doubt naturally arises whether this can be of any service to the plant.

  • The grey-wacke consists of highly inclined beds of slaty micaceous sandstone, which on the one hand alternates with and passes into a coarse breccia, having grains as large as peas; on the other, into a soft argillaceous slate.

  • The primary strata are characterized, moreover, by the nearly vertical or highly inclined position of their planes; the secondary lie for the most part in a nearly horizontal position.

  • The next highest peaks are formed of the gypseous and porphyritic strata, thrown into vertical or highly inclined positions.

  • The depression which they fill has been excavated out of Eocene and Cretaceous rocks, which form everywhere the sides of the valley in highly inclined stratification.

  • As an illustration of the partial conversion into gneiss of portions of a highly inclined set of beds, I may cite Sir R.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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