Contour planting involves tilling, discing, and otherwise preparing the land in line with its natural slope, then planting crops on this same line. When you look at a topographic map, the rows and/or ...

These images are from a 2004 paper by Mosher et al. titled Near-surface geology and sediment-failure geohazards of the central Scotian Slope. The first image (below) is a map showing the study ...

Recent studies of scarps produced by normal faulting of cohesionless materials indicate that older scarps are steeper than younger ones, and that slope angles are less for lower scarps of the same age ...