steepened's Usage Examples:

by freeze-thaw weathering, and the slope on either side of the arête steepened through mass wasting events and the erosion of exposed, unstable rock.

measuring 41 metres by 30 metres, and its sides may have been artificially steepened.

this opening was "repeatedly reamed out, which probably widened and steepened the walls of the gap".

although the post-eruption avalanche may have its causes in the over-steepened slopes produced by the explosive period of the eruption.

As the wave passes over the shallow area its shape is raised and steepened, creating a localised wave formation.

This steepened the stream gradient of the ancestral rivers and other streams on the plateau.

The downstream slope of the dam will be steepened from 3:1 to 2.

the west and the remaining portion of the ice sheet to the east, which steepened the slopes of the escarpment to give it the form it has today.

, the homoclinal ramp or the distally-steepened ramp.

gradients) or in which a particularly hard lithology causes a river to have a steepened reach that has not been covered in modern alluvium.

Rock slides are very common in the over steepened canyons and drainages of Idaho, particularly in those areas like the Salmon.

A further possibility is that a valley glacier steepened the sides of the valley, leaving unstable slopes that failed after the.

As the regional angle of subduction steepened, volcanic activity gradually shifted to the east in the Miocene and Pliocene.

crater was probably formed as inward-collapsing material impacted the over-steepened central peak, to form a hydraulic jump at the location where the peak.

are usually heavily eroded during storm surges and the beach profile steepened, whereas normal wave action on flat coasts tends to raise the beach.

Since 2009, the decline in the number of immigrants has steepened as a consequence of the economic crisis that has been occurring from 2008.

As the yaw grew sharper, the pitch angle also steepened until the aircraft struck a caisson and crashed into Guanabara Bay, about.

so many chisels are made with that in mind, and require the bevels be steepened if employed for harder woods.

Straightening of lower Marsh Creek for flood control steepened its gradient relative to its original meandering course, requiring construction.

a million years ago when movements along a fault in the Earth's crust steepened the river's gradient.

Synonyms:

change;

Antonyms:

detransitivize; stay;