Crevasse Sentence Examples

The work required to produce this crevasse is twice the product of the tension and the area of one of the faces.

About two hours later our path was blocked by a 1 1/2 meter wide deep crevasse.

From the basic knots through to pulley systems and crevasse rescue.

The first expedition to the mountain in 2003 found it impossible to cross a large crevasse barring the summit.

This is followed to a large crevasse in the upper face, which gives access to a small snowfield.

The Murray snowfield proved to be a long imperceptibly uphill slog in slightly soft snow, but no crevasse problems.

At the south-east corner the rim of the crater is, as it were, breached by a deep crevasse through which the Abai escapes, and here develops a great semicircular bend like that of the Takazze, but in the reverse direction - east, south and north-west - down to the plains of Sennar, where it takes the name of Bahr-el-Azrak or Blue Nile.

If we now suppose the crevasse produced by direct separation of its walls, the work necessary must be the same as before, the initial and final configurations being identical; and we recognize that the tension may be measured by half the work that must be done per unit of area against the mutual attraction in order to separate the two portions which lie upon opposite sides of an ideal plane to a distance from one another which is outside the range of the forces.