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- noun Plural form of
hillslope .
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Speaking from personal experience as a former civil servant who had been placed in "cold storage" for being brave enough to go against a directive (by a politician) when he knew he was right, Masidi said if civil servants did not let politicians interfere, they would be able to make the right decisions, especially on development in sensitive areas such as hillslopes and by the sea.
nst online 2009
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Speaking from personal experience as a former civil servant who had been placed in "cold storage" for being brave enough to go against a directive (by a politician) when he knew he was right, Masidi said if civil servants did not let politicians interfere, they would be able to make the right decisions, especially on development in sensitive areas such as hillslopes and by the sea.
nst online 2009
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Significant ash fall can lead to acclerated rates of erosion on hillslopes and in valleys, above normal streamflow in rivers during rainstorms, and increased deposition of sediment along riverbeds and valley floors.
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An arctic climatic regime and unstable hillslopes maintain a sparse cover of dwarf scrub vegetation throughout the mountains through some valleys provide more mesic sites for graminoid herbacious communities.
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On hillslopes and ridges they are formed in very gravelly residual material over weathered bedrock.
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The soft silts and clays of the Sentinel Butte and Bullion Creek Formations continually melt off the sparsely vegetated conical hillslopes.
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Forest communities occupy lower hillslopes and valleys.
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Subsurface drainage from hummock-cover hillslopes in the Arctic tundra.
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Rocky Mountain juniper grows on the hillslopes; cottonwood and green ash appear in the riparian areas.
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Nevertheless, there are some farms growing corn and hay on the ridges and some pastures on the hillslopes.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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